Holes by Louis Sachar

Author:Louis Sachar
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780307798367
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

THE LAST HOLE

29

There was a change in the weather.

For the worse.

The air became unbearably humid. Stanley was drenched in sweat. Beads of moisture ran down the handle of his shovel. It was almost as if the temperature had gotten so hot that the air itself was sweating.

A loud boom of thunder echoed across the empty lake.

A storm was way off to the west, beyond the mountains. Stanley could count more than thirty seconds between the flash of lightning and the clap of thunder. That was how far away the storm was. Sound travels a great distance across a barren wasteland.

Usually, Stanley couldn’t see the mountains at this time of day. The only time they were visible was just at sunup, before the air became hazy. Now, however, the sky was very dark off to the west, and every time the lightning flashed, the dark shape of the mountains would briefly appear.

“C’mon, rain!” shouted Armpit. “Blow this way!”

“Maybe it’ll rain so hard it will fill up the whole lake,” said Squid. “We can go swimming.”

“Forty days and forty nights,” said X-Ray. “Guess we better start building us an ark. Get two of each animal, right?”

“Right,” said Zigzag. “Two rattlesnakes. Two scorpions. Two yellow-spotted lizards.”

The humidity, or maybe the electricity in the air, had made Zigzag’s head even more wild-looking. His frizzy blond hair stuck almost straight out.

The horizon lit up with a huge web of lightning. In that split second Stanley thought he saw an unusual rock formation on top of one of the mountain peaks. The peak looked to him exactly like a giant fist, with the thumb sticking straight up.

Then it was gone.

And Stanley wasn’t sure whether he’d seen it or not.

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