The Final Revelation

By Mike Ramon

A short story. A mysterious preacher arrives in the desert town of Wayfarer's Rest. The preacher draws a cult-like movement around himself. The preacher has his faithful start digging in the earth to find something, and they unleash an unnamed terror.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Ramon
• Release date: Nov 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215013724

Mike Ramon

Born and bred in the Midwest.

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THE FINAL REVELATION

Mike Ramon

© 2023 M. Ramon

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By the time we reentered Wayfarer’s Rest, I hadn’t seen the sun in a month. The sky was a roiling black mass, shot with blue pulses of electricity. When I was six, a bolt of lightning struck a street sign a block up from my house when my sister and I were playing in the rain in the front yard of our home. It scared the shit out of me, and from then on, I’ve always been a little scared of thunderstorms. But the thing spreading out from the Rest was no thunderstorm. There was no rain, and the flashes of light were something other than lightning. Those icy blue flashes never touched the ground, nor were they ever followed by a thunderclap. When me, Ed, and some of the others who’d made it out of town had first gotten to Buzzard Gulch thirty miles away from the Rest, the skies there had been clear. But the black cloud spread up and over us, and most people in the Gulch had fled farther, hoping to outrun the reach of whatever thing had been awakened in the desert. The radio was the only way to get news from the outside world, and what we heard was horrifying. In the days and weeks that followed our initial escape from the Rest, cities went dark. The latest reports we’d heard had the black cloud spreading as far north as the Northwest Territories in Canada and as far south as the