15 Terns - A Story

I once read that lightning fixes nitrogen in the soil. The lighting bolt's electric charge breaks the stable strong bond that exists between the nitrogen atoms that fill the air. The separated atoms rearrange and attach themselves to oxygen and rain delivers these molecules to the earth. It can burn you too. The shoreline remembers the power of such storms in its blackened trees, which, like the small flowery monuments to the highway dead, post their warnings along the way. The story is about navigating your way in a storm.