Flash: Red Skies at Night

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The world exploded on July Fourth, and not in a good way but in an anti-independence day kind-of way. The aliens didn’t care about our drama. Not about Trump having secret documents in a bathroom, not about training AI by stealing creativity instead of programming grunt-work, and certainly not whether kids or guns are more important to have in the classroom. The aliens brought their own drama.

It’s like when the neighbors down the street have a screaming argument in the yard. Only in our skies.

Problem is, just like the neighbors, they didn’t stay down the street. They landed.

(words 100 – first published 7/2/2023)