I like it. The use of single quotation marks threw me off at first because I was unsure of the POV. I like representing the Rapture as bleak winter cold. Much different from fire and brimstone. Reminds me of that song In the Bleak Midwinter.
Lovely stuff
“Some say the world will end in fire, others say the world will end in ice. I say the world will end as it begun… “…In silence and in darkness.” - Roland of Gilead, “The Dark Tower”
“Some say the world will end in fire, others say the world will end in ice. I say the world will end as it begun… “…In silence and in darkness.”
thanks for the comments you three
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