fiction - drabble for "Balance"
Mar. 13th, 2011 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoThe alien spaceship looms high above the city, its death ray nearly ready to fire. A team of brave pilots are humanity’s last hope. The fate of the Earth itself hangs in the balance.
Then mom calls me in for lunch.
By the time I make it back to the sandbox, the conflict is over. The neighbor’s dog has trampled the city and buried the alien ship. In the next instant, two things happen.
First, I learn that conflict between two forces leaves them both vulnerable to destruction by a third party.
Second, I become a cat person.
Then mom calls me in for lunch.
By the time I make it back to the sandbox, the conflict is over. The neighbor’s dog has trampled the city and buried the alien ship. In the next instant, two things happen.
First, I learn that conflict between two forces leaves them both vulnerable to destruction by a third party.
Second, I become a cat person.
