Thursday, September 10, 2020

Nemesis

The party in the woods…

…would be one they’d never forget.

What was the fiery blaze that crossed the sky?

Michael’s loss of his mother to cancer and father to drink, made life hard. Poverty had taught him empathy. Good looks, though, weren’t enough to make him popular, but he found his crowd.

A giant fireball made them stop.

The moment they saw it, everyone was paralyzed with fear. Would it set the forest a blaze? Could they outrun it?

What happened next…

…made everything worse.

Complete silence.

They had braced for the crash, the explosion, the inevitable terror, but all they got was quiet until each of the four of them had the same thought: Something just landed.

What did it mean?

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