Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Planet Eater
Jack Winters watched in disbelief as the enormous shape of the planet eater overcame the sky. The moon was in the west, still visible in day time, it was covered with the blueish tint of the sky. The same for the beast. It was like looking through a fog, as all the features of the beast had yet to breach the atmosphere. Just then two moon-sized eyes bolted open, and cast their gaze down. Jack felt as if this beast was looking at HIM, into HIM. He felt prickles and shakes flow through his body until he felt like he was going to explode under the gaze of such a cosmic being. Just then, the body of the beast began to part, exposing seven rows of a hundred thousand teeth. Each tooth seemed to have the majesty of Mount Everest. and that thought stuck, as Jack remembered the trek up that mountain. For two weeks they pushed through the snow, and to stand at the top, what a sense of belonging, of accomplishment, and the view... that was really something. Jack had chosen to forget about the beast, as its teeth turned red as they impacted the atmosphere. The sky turned yellow then white. The beast swallowed the Earth whole, and everyone on it. It's mouth began to close. Jack decided to face the world, reluctantly stepping away from the memories of the good life that he had lived. He realized he was still alive, and he wept because he knew that he was among the last of all mankind to see the final glimmer of light that would ever fall upon the surface of the Earth from their home sun slowly fading behind the bedroom door that was the planet eater's mouth. Darkness fades to black...
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