the beginning a.k.a. part one....

The lights flickered again... this was the thrid time in the last hour and if it flickered again the power was going to go out for sure...

The thunder storms started early and had carried on into the early afternoon. The clouds in the sky reminded him of steel wool stretched out across the horizion. The old man was sitting in his chair and watched the lightning dancing across the horizion when there was a knock on his door.

He wasn't expecting anyone this afternoon and he couldn't imagine who in their right minds would be out in this storm. He slowly got up from his chair and ambled across his thickly carpeted livingroom floor to the front entrance to his home.