All rights reserved. Published in the United States of America by Pendan Publishing This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are used fictitiously and/or are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is purely coincidental. The Library of Congress has catalogued the paperback edition as follows: Sturak, Jonathan Clouded Rainbow : A Novel p. cm. ISBN: 978-0-9825894-0-3 www.sturak.com To You One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ~Sophocles 1 A BATTERED MAN WANDERS IN THE POURING RAIN. He is tall and wears an expensive black suit that is drenched with the sky’s tears. His footsteps splash on the cold, hard ground as he staggers down the center yellow line of the city street. It is night and, although tall glass-encased buildings fill the metropolis and mirror the brilliant streetlights, the city is lifeless.
