HE SAID THE SKY WOULD TURN

it turned

Standing outside Sky overcast Congregation 0 Est. long enough

Prophet Cat

I have made forty one predictions and every single one of them came true. None of them were difficult.

Wind

6 km/h, west

Next sermon

Whenever

Attendance

0 (stable)

Contract

soon

The sun will go downIt went downThe rain will stop at some point It stoppedSomeone will say my name wrongThey did Nothing happens todayCorrect again The sun will go downIt went downThe rain will stop at some point It stoppedSomeone will say my name wrongThey did Nothing happens todayCorrect again
ObservationsKept by hand
41 / 41Predictions, confirmed
Named a dateNever
Named a timeNever
Named a placeOnce, vaguely
Was wrongNot yet
Bells rung0
People present0
the prophet in his hood beside the cathedral spire

The hood was not a costume decision. It rained on the first morning and it has more or less kept raining since.

My method is simple. I say a thing that the sky was going to do anyway, and then I wait, and then the sky does it, and then I say nothing for a while so that it settles.

the prophet standing alone on cathedral steps

01

The steps

I stand on the same three steps at roughly the same hour. Nobody asked me to and nobody has asked me to stop, which I am counting as an arrangement.

A man walked past on a Tuesday and nodded. I have referred to him as the congregation ever since.

the prophet under heavy rain

02

The rain

I announced that rain was coming. It arrived four days later. Because I had not said when, the prediction remained perfectly intact the entire time.

This is the whole craft. Say the thing, refuse the calendar.

empty pews inside the cathedral

03

The seats

Inside, every seat is free. I predicted that too, on the first day, and it has held up better than anything else I have ever said.

I keep the doors open anyway. A prophecy with no witnesses still counts. I checked.

the clouds opening over the cathedral

Once, the sky did something I had not mentioned. I stood there for a while and then went back to the steps. I have not brought it up since, and neither has anyone else.