I am a cloud! I know it! Today, during this summer drought, all the water in my body misted into a cloud. Then I began to float into the sky and now everyone will…

     ‘Witness my tears! The rain pouring down like my sorrow.’

     I pound at the dirt with my right hand as my left tightly grips at fresh pulled weeds. My left hand loosens; the weeds float down into the bucket. Red, liquid droplets drip from my once sky blue eyes after trying to scrape out the image before me. Now all that exists is one puffed, sleep deprived eye and bloody claw marks where the other eye should be. Slowly, I begin to burrow at the dirt; both hands cupped together like I’m getting water.

     The image replays in my memory.

     ‘Deep growls and howls emit from the creature, also known as a coyote. Its scrawny legs and boney stomach ripping at the corpse, nasty dirty brown fur covered in thick red gunk, drying and tinting a maroon hue. Its jaw opens as it teeth snap down…’

     “Ahh!” I stop digging as I claw at my face again. Violently tearing off the delicate peach skin that used to be admired. Replacing it with red and hard white bone. All I see is red… My sanity is slipping, why couldn’t I be a cloud?!

     Wait… but I am a cloud. Floating above this canyon, away from the young woman. Her brunette hair dirty with blood sticking to her… face? What an ugly woman! Only one eye, bloody scratches all over her and the screams! My, my God! Good thing I’m a beautiful white cloud, purest of all. I can disappear from th…

     I go back to the dirt, ripping at it like I did my skin. Ruining my gentle flower dress I had received at the baby shower. The only thing in my dark red world that shows any other color are the bright white clouds above, floating past my home, past the dark red canyon. The canyon where the creature lives, snuggling with its cubs. Feeding them the pieces it could salvage from mine before I snatched her away. My baby! Mine!