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Monday,
March 3, 2014 |
Monday, March 3, 2014 |
Panel 1: A disheveled girl dressed in rags sits alone in what looks like a cave. She speaks into a recording device. Girl: Day one hundred and twenty-six. Appalling torment continues. Panel 2: Perspiration beads the girl's forehead. Girl: Trapped in an unceasing nightmare with no solace but the sound of my own voice, I strive to ignore the meaningless howling of the beast. Panel 3: Girl: There are words, but they are empty...hollow. Something about five paragraphs and a list of thesis points. Must not listen. Must-- New Voice from Off-Panel: Rose? Panel 4: The girl, Rose, is now dressed neatly in a T-shirt and jeans; her red hair is in a ponytail. She sits in what looks like a high-school classroom. She is still holding the recorder up to her mouth. On her desk are a folded white cane and a notebook. The other students watch her in bewilderment. Teacher: If we could have your attention... Rose: Why, do you need it for something? Alt-Text: Mysterious post-apocalyptic prison cave...high-school English class: what's the difference, really? Banner: This is the regular It Never Rains banner header, which appears at the top of most It Never Rains pages. Front and centre is a middle-aged woman in a toque, a grey hoodie, and ripped jeans. She is wearing big round glasses and has a single strand of white hair peeking out from under her toque. She sits cross-legged on a green blanket spread over the sidewalk. Beside her, leaning against a stone wall, is a cardboard sign reading, "IT NEVER RAINS by Kari Maaren." A tin can is sitting in front of her. She is smiling. People are walking past her, but we can see only their legs. We get: grey lace-up knee boots under a hot pink skirt; browner loafers and blue jeans, with the person who owns them wielding a white cane; white-and-turquoise sneakers and grey pants, with this person walking side by side with the cane user; black shoes and black pants; blue-and-white sneakers and turquoise jogging pants with yellow stripes; and brown shoes and brown pants. The person with black shoes and black pants is dropping a loonie into the panhandler's tin can. Go to commentary |