A block away from the metro the sky opened and raindrops plummeted from the high-rise-cluttered sky. Umbrellas bloomed upwards as Min weaved his way through the lurching crowd. A jet stream of humid June air funneled down the street, slanting the rain and blurring neon signs and LED billboards scrolling ribbons with the latest financial news. Every storefront and city block called out in electric blues and pinks, offering up karaoke, libations, and fortune-telling.
description of rainy streets in Seoul, Korea, from When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley
Paul Gustav Fischer (Copenhague 22 July 1860 – 1 May 1934) was a Danish painter. Fisherwomen Waiting for Customers after the Rain, GammelstrandPaul Gustave Fischer(1860–1934) Copenhagen StreetPaul Gustave Fischer (Danish, 1860 – 1934) Evening, Copenhaghen, 1920Arthur Streeton (Australian, 1867–1943)Francis Dodd (American, 1874-1949), Willow in Winter, 1925Edouard Leon Cortes 1882-1969 French post impressionist painter, Place de l’Opera, ParisEdouard Leon Cortes 1882-1969 French post impressionist painter Rue Royale ParisEdouard Leon Cortes 1882-1969 French post impressionist painter Porte St. Denis ParisEdouard Leon Cortes 1882-1969 French post impressionist painter Avenue de l’Opera ParisEdouard Leon Cortes 1882-1969 French post impressionist painter Champs Élysée ParisEdouard Leon Cortes 1882-1969 French post impressionist painter Boulevard de la Madelein ParisEdouard Leon Cortes 1882-1969 French post impressionist painter Rue Royal ParisThe Seven Deadly Sins – Envy by Carel Victor Morlais Weigh c1979Paul Cornoyer (1864 – 1923 American Impressionist Painter After the Rain, 1922Camille Pissaro. Après la pluie, quai à Pontoise (The Quai du Pothuis at Pontoise After Rain), 1876Tadahiro UesugiTadahiro UesugiLeaving the Grocery Store In The Rain April 24 1954 edition of The Saturday Evening PostPaul Sawyer (1865-1917) – A rainy day in FrankfortEdouard Leon Cortes, (1882-1969), St.Martin, ParisParis Boulevard 1939 Konstantin Korovin (Russian, 1861-1939)Parigi, Boulevard di notte, Konstantin Korovin (18611939)Wet Night on the Bowery, 1911, John French Sloan (American, 1871-1951)This artwork was created by artificial intelligence, based on a stock photo.This artwork was created by artificial intelligence, based on a stock photo.Ralph Avery (1907–1976) New York Public Library, cover of the March 1957 Reader’s DigestKasamatsu Shiro, Shinbashi in Rain 1935
Header art: Antonius Johannes Thieme aka Anthony Thieme 1888 Rotterdam – 1954 Greenwich, Connecticut, Rain in the South
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
