Ficlets

An insignificant, boulder-sized asteroid hurtled through the silent corridors of space towards the blue-green planet directly in its path. Although it was traveling at thousands of miles an hour, it moved without hurry.

Linz and Ty laid side-by-side, the crowns of their heads touching slightly, in a lush field of grass and daises. The day was glorious. The sky was a cloudless, dark blue and the air warm and dry. “Ty, I want you to know something”, Linz said. “Yes?” asked Ty.

“Through the run-on sentences, the bad grammar, and the insipid melodrama, I just want you to know. . .” Linz voice trailed off as she spied a fiery streak in the sky. Ty saw it too. They intertwined hands, sharing in the beauty of the moment.

The atmosphere shredded the asteroid, reducing it to a few harmless particles, except for one fist-sized rock which escaped, falling Earthward. The meteor hit the field of grass and daises with such force it left a crater the size of a house.

Linz and Ty were evaporated instantly.