Heavy Lightning
The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. - Mark Twain in a Letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888 Lightning. It is a huge topic. I wanted to touch on it after my last post Lip Balm, Hand Lotion, and Rubber Gloves because, as a fiction writer there is so much to explore here. There are so many kinds of lightning that people can't even agree on which kinds are real. Is lighting just a giant static spark caused by friction and an imbalance of charged…