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The hurricane blew with a spooky sound

The hurricane blew with a spooky sound

Experiencing a hurricane in Florida was something new for me. Its eye had supposed to hit us, but when it was a few miles from our coast, it unexpectedly changed its trajectory, turning upward and touching land about 60 miles north. But I felt some distant bands around its center: the wind was warm and dry as if coming from a furnace and smelled of algae, which had gathered from ocean water. It also blew with a spooky sound different from all the strong sea winds I had ever heard when I grew up on a building next to a beach in Cadiz, Spain. That area is well known for the intense eastern winds that originate in the Sahara Desert.

The nothings, the nobodies/ Anthony Doerr

The nothings, the nobodies/ Anthony Doerr

“There are two kinds of death,” he says, the clouds of his breath plunging out into the cold. “You can fight like a lion. Or you can go as easy as lifting a hair from a cup of milk. The nothings, the nobodies—they die easy.”