Jonah

He still smelled of fish more than a week after the incident. The bustling crowds of Nineveh parted as he passed by as if he were Moses and they the Red Sea.

It took a day and a half for Jonah to reach the center of the city. He desperately wished to run away, maybe to India this time, but he feared what God had in store for him. A behemoth? A leviathan?

The fish-smelling Israelite lifted his arms to heaven. The crowd around him stopped to listen. “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown,” Jonah proclaimed and then left.