Micro Fiction: Starlight
Mar 2, 2024
Starlight.
A trillion trillion trillion trillion incandescent bulbs exploding across 1.4 million kilometres.
9 billion pairs of eyes turned skyward, watching the greatest marvel of all time, the fireworks to end all fireworks, you could say the greatest display in a million years.
Or a billion years.
Mercury is gone, vapourised at 30 million degrees Celsius.
In a few hours, so will the Earth.
All becoming nothing.
Starlight.
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