Another compo. I know its boring.

Describe the feeling of loneliness and suspense.

When I returned to the place i had called home, I realised that the heat which came down in hard orange rays scorched the pavement in short sharp bursts of light. flowers wilted, trees sagged under the very glare of the intense heat, people burried themselves in the comfort of their own home, those who were unlucky enough to be out of their home melted against the stinging heat of the sidewalk. Faces squinted against the sun, the very insides of their bodies were bathed in persperation. I knew that place as an old city i grew up in, and also where a wonderful love story blossomed. However,time had stopped still. The village remained as just as i remembered it. The squart little attap houses sat glumly along the grass, which was piled with clothes of different colours. The only patch of grass which wasn't green or covered with pieces of fabric revealed a dry coloured yellowed grass.Here and there, the cloth fluttered feebly in the stillness and then revealed yet another portion of brown grass. The atmosphere was tense and stretched, as if the very air i was breathing in tightened like a rubber band in my lungs. The road curled in elegant curved movements, almost snake like. Somewhere down this asphalt road, which was spasely covered, a lone dog howled. The very action filled the air with a mournful sound which made my toes curl up inside my shoes. The thudding of my shoes against the pothhole filled dirt track had a dull permanace to it, even though the sound sounded stangely familiar to me back in the city, it sounded alien to me now. Above, the swirling vortex of clouds twisted in thick cream like movements. Somewhere ahead, i spotted a black body of a dog. As i came up closer to it, it revealed itself as a german shepherd, its yellow eyes bore into mine with hardness matching that of the sun's. Its thick glossy fur was matted with little knots. From between spurts of short panting breath, the dog bore its stained yellow teeth as it moved awkwardly around the rusty chain which drew its boundaries. It barked. Then our eyes connected. As I waited for the lunge, I squeezed my eyes shut in a last minute effort to divulge surrender. The time had come for a battle with nature.