And the world raged around them, incessant and malevolent, the earth howled and the wind shook and they thought this was to be their end. Mountains trembled and fell, oceans rose and crashed, sleet blew and the thunder spoke the death knell of the lives they once knew. All over chaos reigned and the people trembled in their skins.

The iron grey sky above him had not changed in tone or texture for three days.  It provided him no hint of rolling clouds or that distant orb that had once heated the ground upon which he stood.  Before setting off over the hillside, he kicked vacantly at the cold stony ground and wondered if the sky would change before he made it back to the forward engineering unit.

Frenzy comes creeping across shoulder blades, not quite here, salivating in anticipation.

The insect buzzing of fluorescent lights that hang empty, heavy, forlorn over the street.  There are scattered remains of brightly colored candies crushed like fireworks shot down from the clouds to explode and lay broken on the concrete.

The medical ward ran low and long across the ridge on the outskirts of the shimmering city.  It swept across the landscape in sensual curves, here the turn of a lower lip, there the sweet arc of a breast.  Seamless as shark skin, it seemed perfectly evolved, as though it had come into this world fully formed in its perfection. 

Swaddled in fear, you will wield demons from your lips.

As they walked through the shimmering street, a nondescript man was plucked from the throng and sent whirling upwards.  He wore a demon-wise grin as he flailed and wailed upwards into the vast blue of the beyond, twirling into firmament. 

a tiny hill-top graveyard is scattered with minuscule headstones looking over a muddy stream and the kudzu would choke these trees had it not already died.