Matthew_Douglas518

HERE’S TO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

The rain hasn’t fallen on Mercer Street in over forty years. Water is rationed, the market thrives, and the people live hidden from time itself—until she appears.

Margo arrives at the doorstep of an old apartment house, soaked from head to toe in something impossible. Rain. She doesn’t know where she came from. She doesn’t remember how she got there. But she smells like a storm from another time, and that scent is about to change everything.

Park and Key, longtime friends and misfits of Mercer, take her in—one fascinated, the other suspicious. As they uncover the mysteries of her past, they find themselves tangled in a web of forgotten histories, secret societies, and a reality they were never meant to question.

Time folds. The past whispers. And in a world where water is worth more than gold, the girl with the rain might just be the key to everything.

A mind-bending dystopian fantasy soaked in jazz, opium smoke, and the scent of lost memories.

 Mystery, time distortion, and a city lost in its own legend
 A girl who shouldn’t exist—and the men drawn into her storm
 Secrets buried beneath the market and the gatekeepers who guard them
 A journey through a world where the past is a whisper and the future is unwritten

Here’s to something beautiful. Here’s to what comes next.

Here's To Something Beautiful

Key was finishing putting the rest of the hemp oil into the car so we could make our way to town. I needed some things at the market and I wanted Margo to hear the old timers talk about rain. I loved going into town, all the bubbles that fill the air from the exhaust is quite mesmerizing. I hop at any chance to take a car trip to town.

WHISTLE "Come on cosmo!" Key yelled to the dog. Cosmo had hidden himself outside behind our apartment house in the garden when our strange guest arrived. Just then, he came bolting around the corner and jumped right into the back seat. I reached out and pet him as he looked up to me wagging his tail.

"Ah comso our old friend. Hows it going buddy?" He looked at me with his head tilted. He knew we were going to the market. Cosmo loves the market. Mrs Greyy the old bag from town always feeds him jerky and treats. It always makes his breath stink like shit for days. I hate when Mrs Greyy gives him that garbage. But cosmo loves it. So I don't really mind.

"Come on Key!' Margo yelled. I could tell she was excited to go to town. We all were. It's an adventure. We get to drive through the pineapple mountains and down passed the bubble falls to our good friend Henrys house. In all our years here, I always love to go to town.

My sister lives over in the Holy Hills next to the nectar creeks. Her and her husband are always collecting nectar from the creeks to use in their strange hippie brews. It's too sweet for my liking but my sister uses it on EVERYTHING. I hope in my mind that we might get the time to take our new strange friend to meet my dear sister and her husband. But I knew the chances of it actually happening are slim. Her husband is kind of strange. A bit aggressive for me. If he was an animal he would be a shark.

Chapter Seven