Until recently, it was a four-letter word that was mentioned hopefully, reverently — rain. But after this month’s numerous atmospheric rivers and the devastation they brought, many of us might be quietly reciting the popular nursery rhyme: “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.”

For February, let’s explore rain — in six words. What is your relationship with rain?

Please make it a story with a beginning, middle and end — not six adjectives, a cliche or advice. Make us laugh or cry or at the very least feel something. For an example, here is the famous story attributed to, but not proven to be written by, Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” That’s quite the story!

If you want your story to run in the IJ, please:

• Write “Six-word story” in the subject line

• Send one story. Just one

• Include your full name and Marin town in the body of the email

• Write your short story in the body of the email

• Use proper punctuation and spelling

• Use sentence style in one line

• It does not need to rhyme and ideally shouldn’t

• Do not submit six adjectives — that’s not a story

Send to lifestyles@marinij.com by Feb. 17 and look for it in the Feb. 28 lifestyles section and online.