Winking Light [Story A Day - #16]
I really need to stop writing just before bed. I find when I do my stories are very much shorten due to an intense desire to sleep. This story comes to me after watching a documentary on Nova about the great role telescopes made in discovering the cosmos. All I could think about when I sat down to write was telescopes and space. I may have to come back to this little story and making into something a bit longer.
Jo peered through the telescope watching the same dot for months. Nothing ever changed with it, that is till a night in late spring when the dot winked at her. She thought something must have flown across the lens for just a moment, but there was was still an impression of light coming from the dot even when it winked. Jo sat back trying to figure out what was going on when she noticed something strange that the computer was detecting and returned to the telescope to view the anomaly.
It seemed to her like the winking light was getting bigger, no brighter. Her breath caught in her throat and double checked that her computer was recording this. She may be one of the few people on Earth to record a planet going super nova. This new thought took root and she pushed her questions of winking lights aside and watches as this planet died. Only it didn’t die. Within moment’s the light reached across time and space and plucked Jo right off her seat next to her telescope and whisked her off into a galaxy only know as M82 never to be seen by human eyes again.
