Your Monday Moment of Noir

"All day the rain poured down on the Bronx without mercy. The sewers overflowed and the waters rose over the curbs of the street. The tenement at No. 55 Dropsie Avenue seemed ready to rise and float away on the swirling tide. "Like the ark of Noah," it seemed to Frimme Hersh as he sloshed homeward. Only the tears of ten thousand weeping angels could cause such a deluge And, come to think of it, maybe that is exactly what it was... after all, this was the day Frimme Hersh buried Rachele, his daughter."

A Contract With God
by Will Eisner
(Baronet Press, 1978)