Leviathan

What's got two thumbs and just learned to ignore pop-up blurbs about Meta codes? This Guy! Below is my original selection I chose to post for the viewing masses (is it a mass if 0 people read it? I contend that it is not. Moving on). Here it is, a preview of my short story, Leviathan.

Fire engulfed a cloud that was floating in the air. Some people screamed and shifted their cars into gear. The blaze was short lived. The moisture killed it in the air. Engines were revving. More horn noises and suddenly a car went flying against traffic, dissecting the grass in the median. The first car was followed by another. Then another. The panic-stricken couple just sat, comatose in their vehicle.
The blackness in the sky swallowed the clouds and burst through them at an alarmingly fast speed. Their windshield was taken up by the image of this massive structure falling from the sky. Cars crumpled and crunched under the weight of the black mass, now leaving traces of a gray sky shredded against a sea of blue above it.
“Jake, we have to go.” Jake shifted his car into gear. He pulled backwards and cut the wheel to the left but the traffic that built itself behind him didn’t give him enough room to work with. He pulled his car closer to the median and killed the brakes. The cars fighting against traffic slipped and slid through the median, now a mud pit.
The trees in the distance were shaking, the leaves falling out in clumps, as if by being thrust towards the ground. The lightening shot out once more, this time into the black mass. A blinding white light shot out across the plain and the deafening sound of hundreds of car windows erupting at once filled the sky. Jacob and Rose grabbed their ears, drunk from the pressure.
Jacob felt death approaching closer. He wasn’t ready for his time to be over. “Get out of the car, we’re leaving.” Rose shoved her door open and they both hopped on top of their hood. Looking towards the distant road in front of them they could see black smoke rising towards the sky; the ground before them was littered by fire.
“Jake?” He couldn’t think at that moment.
“I don’t know. We have to leave.” He took her hand and they ran across a few hoods before stopping short of a car that was forcing its way past another car to escape. Metal tore and plastic cracked as the road became a destruction derby. The smart ones were already ahead in the distance, fleeing on foot. The idealists stayed in their cars, trapped in their vehicular tombs. Babies where crying and children were sobbing, not knowing what to make of the world that they had known for so little of a time.
The mob of humans ran away from the Beast, which clawed its way out from the ground and connected to the Black Mass that broke the sky and ruptured the land. Most people ran into the woods that ran along the road. Jake looked for any vehicle they could ride with, one that would take them to safety the fastest, but there was nothing. He pulled Rose’s hand as his feet kicked up dirt and they made their way to the lining of trees.