A rainbow is just the refraction of sunlight through rain drops.

It stared at me with piercing yellow eyes like prisms. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck prick as goose flesh formed across my schoulders. I hadn’t meant to get this far off trail. That’s the thing about rainbows- they’re like optical illusions. You think the bottom is right there and all of a sudden you’re a mile off track. ...

I think I just met the happiest person in the world! And not your average kind of happy Charlie either. He danced past me in a sun hat and paused when he saw me holding that crumpled umbrella. “You aren’t you when you’re hungry,” he said and tossed something right at my face. It stung as it bounced off my nose. A butterscotch landed on the ground.

“Hey beat it old man.” I said to him, waving the u...