Coming With The Clouds

both sides now

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

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“For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. In those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.”

“Another day, another commute,” Cole thought as he cruised down that mind-numbing stretch of Interstate again. Except the passage from Matthew 24 kept coming up.

“They did not understand until the flood came and took them all away.”

Iran had released another deadly barrage of missiles at Israel. The world called Jews the aggressors. May He come with the clouds soon.

It’s Wednesday and time once again to participate in Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ 4 October 2024 edition of Friday Fictioneers. The idea is to use the image above as the prompt for crafting a poem or short story no more than 100 words long. My word count is exactly 100.

I’ve been paying close attention to Iran’s missile attack on Israel. I know why Iran thought this was necessary. I know why most of the world thinks Israel was asking for it. I know most of the world considers the Jewish citizens of Israel the aggressors.

I also know that for decades, Israel has tolerated Iran-funded terrorism against the Jewish state and has practiced “moderation” in response to the United States and “world opinion.” I think this time, Israel has just plain had enough, and I don’t blame them.

The passages from Matthew 24:37-39 and Revelation 1:7 came to mind in response to the photo prompt. The rest was easy.

To read other stories based on the prompt, visit inlinkz.

My short story “The Haunted Detective’s Cat” is now available in the Raconteur Press mystery anthology Moggie Noir: Alley Cat Alibi. What’s not to love about a 1940s murder mystery, a private detective named Margie Potter, and a cat called Mac that can see ghosts?

24 thoughts on “Coming With The Clouds”

  1. Apportioning blame all depends on where you start the story. I’d be tempted to start it with the 1948 Nakba (the expulsion of the Palestians from their lands). But others prefer to start more recently and others still further back (several thousand years back)

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    • You seem to have distorted the definitions of land identifications. Before the mid 1960s the Jews were identified as “palestinians” — beginning back in 1917 with the UK Mandate. The 1948 declaration of the state of Israel did not expel Arabs from therein. Many of them fled while 5 Arab nations attacked and failed to destroy the new legally-authorized state. The Jews preferred the label of Israelis but local Arabs remained merely Arabs or Jordanians until shortly before Israelis reclaimed the land Jordan had illegally seized in 1948 and held until 1967. So your reference to a “Nakba” and “Palestinian Arabs” is entirely inaccurate. There’s no such thing as Palestinians or Palestinian lands.such notions are artificial fictions used to deny Jewish sovereignty or national validity. One may also refer to Roman Imperial redefinition of the land of Israel 2 millennia ago, but at present more recent conflicts are of more related relation.

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  3. Your story made me think of Gabi’s story. Humans won’t stop until we’ve all been turned to ash. I’m effing sick of it. After watching the debate and seeing Coaches side supporting retaliation on Iran and Couches saying they want to open up U.S. Federal lands to build millions of homes, I’m truly demoralized.

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  8. I used to tell my counselees that your perception is your reality. In this crazy world, there are so many perceptions! So many lies, so much opinion based on emotion instead of reality. No wonder we’re in such a mess!

    I admire your inclusion of biblical passages. Gives your story some meat on the bones.

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