They fell from the sky like rain, like
cinders from a smoldering fire. Tiny, pebble-like meteors, they fell unnoticed, far north of any inhabitation. They pelted ino
the snow and seemed to vanish, but, though it would be decades before they were found, earth
would feel their presence immediatly, for they carried a substance that would change
everything...
...
Jenna was outside gardening late. She could barely see the spade, and laughed at herself a bit for her
foolishness. "Who else would be out gardening after dark?" she thought. But the moon was out, and
the house lights were fairly bright.
"Oops! Scratch that" she thought as the house lights blinked off. Seems they had had a blackout.
...
Inside Aaron had just about fixed the glitch in the program he was working on when the lights flicked
and dimmed out. "Man!!" he shouted, pounded his fist on desk. He got up and scrounged around the room untill he found a flashlight, but it was
dead. "What a time for the batteries to go out. Maybe the one by the door works. He found
that...Click...No light. "this is wierd, deffinately wierd."
...
At the local hospital the nurses frantically tried to get the emergency generators to work, but no
matter what they tried they wouldn't go on.
In desperation they decided to move some of the most critical patients to Johnson Hospital in the
next county. Hopefully even if the power was out there, they'd have the generators going.
But, they found another problem when they got out to the ambulances--not a one of them was running.
It wouldn't have mattered anyhow: the electricity and the electrically powered emergency
generators at Johnson Hospital were out too. In fact, the electricity was out in Canada and Japan and
Pakistan.
Half of the earth was once more dark...or lit by flames.
