Upside Down In The Middle Of Nowhere (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
It was hot. So hot, the air felt like it was on fire when I sucked it in. It even smelled hot. It was dark. We coughed. We cried. And we didn’t talk. We waited. We huddled together in one big Curtis clump on the attic’s crooked plywood floor, squished into a corner as far as possible from the door that held the water back. The roar of raging waters destroying our house had stopped. But for a long while, the water rushing below us churned and pushed—the sound of everything we called home being washed away. The roof rattled and shook, giving me the constant unsettling feeling that the wind was gonna rip it clean off. The scariest time was when everything got all quiet and still. None of us was crying or talking. I was scared to make any noise. I didn’t want the water to find us. Then the sweetest sound filled my ears. Memaw went to humming one of her hymns real soft. Sitting there in the dark, all wrapped up in fear, came the angels’ music. A calm settled over me—settled over all of us.
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