The Day the Rain Didn’t Stop"

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“When the Sun Forgets”

It had been raining for 87 days.

Not the kind of rain that comes and goes, playful and lazy, teasing rooftops and puddles. No—this was a constant rain, a heavy gray curtain that swallowed the sky and blurred the lines of the world. Streets shimmered with waterlogged silence. Trees hunched like old men under umbrellas. The birds had stopped singing. Even the dogs had learned to bark quietly, as if not to wake something terrible.

The grown-ups said the sun had forgotten us.

“It’s climate,” they’d mutter, stirring instant coffee with resigned wrists. “Everything’s shifting.”

Some blamed the war that had ended three years ago. Others blamed satellites or weather machines or God.

But the children remembered.

Not all of them—only the older ones. The ones who were five or six when the clouds came. The ones who still closed their eyes and saw golden fields and playground shadows and mothers in sundresses.

“We have to remind it,” whispered Lila, standing barefoot in the flooded playground of Haven Street Shelter. She was nine, the leader of the group, with rust-colored hair and a voice like rain tapping glass.

“Remind who?” asked Amir, whose glasses were always fogged up and whose hands smelled like paper.

“The sun. We have to make it feel missed.”

The adults laughed when they heard. “You can’t write to the sun, sweetheart.”

But the children didn’t listen. Because the rain had made the adults slow and tired. Their dreams were soggy and their voices were full of mold. But the children still had fire.

So they began.

Every afternoon, after canned lunch and quiet time, the children gathered in the laundry room with pencils and scraps of paper. They wrote by flashlight, by candlelight, by the pale blue flicker of emergency bulbs.

They wrote about warmth.

About days that smelled like peaches and sidewalk chalk. About ice cream running down fingers. About laying in the grass and pretending to see dragons in clouds. About the sting of sunburn and the joy of sprinklers.

Each child added something.

Amir wrote a poem about the way his mother used to hang bedsheets in the sun and how he’d hide behind them like a ghost.

Lila wrote a story about a sunflower that refused to bloom until the sun came back, no matter how much it rained.

Milo, the quietest, drew pictures instead—vast glowing skies, yellow rivers, stick-figure families running under light.

They called the book “Dear Sun: Please Come Home.”

They wrapped it in plastic and tied it to the tallest kite they could find. The adults rolled their eyes when the children dragged it up the flooded hill.

“You’re wasting your time,” muttered Mr. Delroy, who hadn’t taken off his raincoat in a month.

But the children climbed anyway.

And when the wind was just right—like a breath holding its hope—they let the kite fly. It danced and trembled in the wind like something alive. The plastic book flapped like wings.

For a moment, it rose so high that even the rain seemed to pause.

They cheered. Lila’s heart pounded so loudly it might have been a drum. Amir reached out to catch a drop and thought, just for a second, that it was warm.

But then the string snapped.

The kite vanished into the clouds, the story gone.

The children stood in silence. Some cried. Some kicked at puddles. Lila clenched her fists.

“It didn’t work,” someone whispered.

But they were wrong.

Because that night, for the first time in 87 days, the rain stopped.

Not all at once—but gently. Like a sigh. Like a tired apology.

And in the morning, the clouds broke open, not with thunder—but with light.

Not blazing or bold. But soft. Pale and golden. Like a memory returning.

The adults rubbed their eyes and blinked.

“Must be a coincidence,” muttered Mr. Delroy.

But the children only smiled.

Because they knew.

Sometimes, you just have to remind the sun that you miss it.

And sometimes, the sun misses you too.