“There was a single ray of sun shining through the window. I got up, went to the cracked glass, and saw that it was both raining and shining outside – a bit of meteorological weirdness whose name no one can seem to agree on. My mom, I kid you not, refers to it as “orphan’s tears.”

“There was a single ray of sun shining through the window. I got up, went to the cracked glass, and saw that it was both raining and shining outside – a bit of meteorological weirdness whose name no one can seem to agree on. My mom, I kid you not, refers to it as “orphan’s tears.”

— Ransom Riggs