Storm

What if?

What if the human race were in heat, and procreated, only for a month in the springâ€"just like, say dogsâ€"what would the world be like?

No really, what would such a world be like?

This is one writer’s take on that.

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THEY SAY JESUS KRISTUS WAS UNTOUCHED.

You learn it in school, you hear it from parents, from grandparentsâ€"from them especiallyâ€"from friends, and from preachers; you read it in the Bible: Jesus Kristus was the first to, and the only one ever to, escape, ascend, transcend, what have you, the Storm. He was the first ever to rise above it unscathed, as they like to put it on the late-night TV preacher-shows, especially now with a new Storm approaching; although unscathed means the same as untouched, just has more of a bite to it, and these late-night TV preachers like biting.

And not only was Kristus untouched or unscathed, they go on to tell you, he was conceived beyond the Stormâ€"or unconceivedâ€"is how the Bible puts it in many placesâ€"although born in December, mind you. He was Stormless, is how I like to think of it when I believe the most. Sometimes I believe less, or not at all, and then I don’t really care how He is thought of.

Grandma, who always believedâ€"hungrily, thirstilyâ€"used to say He was beyond the Storm: “Jesus Kristus was beyond the Storm,” she would say, with a sigh, with a blissful little expulsion of air, with an upward longing, her eyes moist, seeing not what was there right in front of her, but instead looking at (or for) some private heaven, some longed for ecstasy. Beyond it, she’d sigh. Beyond it and Untouched, is what she kept telling me since as far back as I can remember. Hungrily, thirstily.