With thunder came rain

With thunder came rain(Joseph) “Don’t go Momma.”
I had tugged her hand softly. She ran her other hand along my cheek and kissed my forehead, “Don’t worry, sweetie, I’ll only be a few minutes. Mommy just needs to look outside.”
“Please, Momma, I don’t want to be alone.” The power had gone out and I was afraid of the dark. She knelt in front of me, taking the hand that I latched onto her, and placed it over the stuffed rabbit I had tucked in the crook of my arm.
“Mr. Bunbun will keep you safe, okay? Mommy really needs to go outside now, alright?”
I nodded solemnly, squeezing my precious cotton friend for comfort. She kissed me one more time on my head and walked out of the front door, shutting it gently behind her. I stared forlornly at the oak barrier that had separated us. I was tall enough to open it myself, but that was something Momma would get upset about so, I waited.
I waited until the noise came again.
A roaring sound like the sky was being split a part echoed down from above followed by a piercing ring that reverberated in my ears. Filled with terror from the sudden noise, I ran to the door, turned the handle, and yanked it open as fast as my little muscles could. I saw Momma standing at the bottom of the porch stairs staring up at the sky. I ignored the harshness of the wind as I bolted down to her, burying my head into her leg, and sobbed so hard my body shook. Mr. Bunbun lay sprawled and abandoned in the doorway.
I felt Momma start to reach down for me, but then… she was gone. I fell forward onto my hands and knees, speechless and in shock.
“Momma?” The tears spilled from my eyes like a broken dam faltering to a raging river. I stood up and looked around for her but saw only a few of my neighbors who were confused and calling out for their own family.
There was another unnatural cacophony of ear shattering thunder that assailed my senses. I finally looked up at the sky and saw the swirling black clouds that centered on a hollow pit in the atmosphere. It was almost as if this tear in the sky was sucking the clouds into it.
I could not move or speak or think. In that moment I only existed.
The wind had stopped, but it wasn’t until I felt the first drop of rain on my cheek that I flinched. The rain came down harder, assaulting the earth and its remaining inhabitants. I stuck my hand out slowly and watched as the red liquid pooled in the palm of my small hand.
In the distance I heard loud, sloshy plops on the concrete. I knew it was different from the rainfall. I let my hand fall to my side. The neighbors who had remained were now in hysterics. Their screams were not of uncertainty anymore, but of sheer terror. Red masses fell from the void above us, colliding onto the earth and all of man’s creations.
The wailing of people mixed with the disturbing discord of booms and crackles emanating from the sky. I could do nothing but stand there and watch the chaos around me.
Until… there was a wet thud behind me…
My body moved on its own as I turned to see the cause of the sound. I looked down and saw Momma’s dress wrapped around a mound of flesh, bone, and viscera.
I stared, lip quivering,
“M-Momma…?”
My voice broke, as did all the pieces of me.