Iwa's Way

Short Fiction by Anthony Martello

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She arrives unannounced, enduring solitude at sea. Gradually, she builds strength while voyaging through Polynesia. Fleeing from Sun Ke Akua, she jumps from storm front to storm front. Her intentional eyes lie shrouded beneath grey brows with gleams of blue iris gazing upon the land.

“Who can I uproot now?”

With the tenacity of a Harpy Eagle, her predatory wings spread, generating gusts of grey swirling the air above while ravaging the water below. Huge vapors of silver spurs spin outward like a mean pinwheel, clowning and frowning on a clear blue sky.

Wild squalls in her hair slither like snakes in Medusas’ battering waves on the shore, warning surfers of her wrath, and daring anyone to enter her path. The grey goddess approaches anxiously.