The door of the boat was shut from the outside.
The fountains of the deep opened and the rains began. The earth quaked sending tsunamis over the land in wave after devastating wave burying living creatures successively in higher and higher mucky graves. In a few months there was no place to hide as the entire surface of the earth became a sea. When the waters retreated dry land emerged, eroded and tortured, above the waters.
The remnant left the boat.
Denise offers the word “remnant” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
For details related to my story see Genesis 6-9. Dr. Georgia Purdom provides even more details.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
A twist on Noah’s tale.đź’ś
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Thank you, Willow!
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Excellent. Who closed the door?
Blessings!
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Yes, mystery is left for the reader to find out in Genesis. Thank you, Michael!
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settled on a mountain, resting and waiting…
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Thankfully there was somewhere for it to land. Thank you, Clark!
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Love it. love it . love it.
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Thank you!
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Spot on!
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Thank you, Susan!
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And then the rainbow… Nicely done, Frank!
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I forgot the rainbow. Thank you, Chris!
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Wow! Brilliant piece, Frank!
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Thank you, Eugenia!
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My pleasure!
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And so glad that they did, so that we know what happened. Great way to retell this story.
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Otherwise there would be no one left. Thank you, Pat!
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Yes, I found myself wondering too about the significance of the door being closed from the outside. You really made the story come alive in a new way.
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Identifying who closed the door is a key part of the story, which I left out. Thank you, Jenne!
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Nicely told 🙂
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Thank you, Nicole!
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Well done!
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Thank you! It is sad to see some of those old buildings demolished as you mentioned in your story.
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Love it. No stopping Nature.
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Thank you, Chel! Once let loose nature can do a lot of damage.
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wow so perfect!!
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Thank you, Pragalbha!
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A powerful re-telling. Surely, a challenge within the format of 6 sentences but you managed to pull it off beautifully.
Nice job, Frank!
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Thank you, Denise!
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Much more readable than the original version, Frank, I especially liked ‘mucky graves’.
But what a pity about the unicorns…
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Thank you!
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Your mentioning unicorns got me curious. Apparently there were creatures that could be described as such, but it is unknown which creature was referred to in the Bible. https://answersingenesis.org/extinct-animals/unicorns-in-the-bible/
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A modern take on an Archaic tale Frank!
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Thank you, Keith!
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Very Epic Of Gilgamesh/Noah’s Ark~
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Thank you, Larry!
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Good one, Frank. The flood makes for some powerful retellings and images. Couldn’t help think of Fukushima 2011 when you mentioned tsunami.
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I was thinking of that same tsunami. Thank you!
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What a great piece of writing!! I especially liked the sentence beginning, “The earth quaked…”
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I imagine that’s when the continental drift occurred. Thank you!
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So maybe the Unicorns turned to Narwhales, since they missed the final boarding call…
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I imagine those unicorns were a kind of land animal. Thanks you, Liz!
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…and the switch may have been an unexpected miracle? I dunno!
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It’s hard to comprehend what the great flood must have been like. I think you did a great job!
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It must have been terrifying. Thank you, Mark!
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