First person, descriptive, opinionated, writing about a place in a way that allows one to play with language. Mythological/Shakespearean/Biblical scale allows for more distance and gives shape to the emotion. Start at some distance, move in closer to the narrator’s experience (the distance builds energy, I think?). Use the language of the chosen mimicked form. [...]

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Maya had always thought that the most terrifying of all weather patterns was not the one that brought overt disaster, but rather the moment before a thunderstorm, when the eerie, puke-yellow sky ripened like a bruise across the visible landscape and the lowlands began to buzz with insects. She found this terrifying precisely because [...]

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