Red Rain.
By Adam-Troy Castro, first published in Nightmare Magazine #1
As you are walking through a city one day, bodies begin to rain from the sky.
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A body falls on the sidewalk in front of you and splatters gore all over you. Onlookers are shocked, until another body falls and everyone looks up and sees that there are hundreds of bodies falling. You make eye contact with one as they fall and realizes that they are alive before they hit the ground, and that they are wearing clothing that is not like any human clothing. It is now a scene of chaos, and everyone starts running and fleeing for shelter as bodies bombard them. You get splattered with blood and gore and push through a mob as the bodies start falling faster. You run to where a man is holding a building door open. Inside, people are throwing up and crying. A crack begins to spread across the window from a body hitting it. You walk over to the elevators, where you hear the thump of bodies falling down the elevator shaft. You see two women coming down the stairs, and blood starts pouring from the wall of the stair shaft. The younger woman goes crazy and starts screaming. You trudge up flights of stairs, hearing an elevator fall from the weight of bodies on it and screaming people fall to their death. On the twelfth floor of the building, you see people huddled together. You go into the bathroom, seeing black gore all over you and try unsuccessfully to rinse it off. The running water from the sink soon stops, and red starts coming out instead. You leave the bathroom and stand at a window, watching the bodies fall. They are now piled up as high as three stories, crashing airplanes are on fire, and blood. You contemplate whether the mound of bodies seems inviting and if you should join it, as the pile rises higher and higher.