Little Chicken

I was in my bed when the sky fell. Almost everyone I have ever met remembers where they were when the sky fell. I was in my bed. I lay there and looked up and watched as it slowly sank through my ceiling. It was translucent but I could reach up and feel its almost silk like quality as it slipped through my fingers. It was black, and shimmery and seemed to waft down slowly until it had sunk through the floor of my room.

I think I would have been more shocked, more upset, and above all else more observant of that important matter had I actually believed myself to be awake. Instead I decided that this was far too strange to have actually happened and went back to sleep. It was only later that night when I heard the house surrounded my sirens and people's screams. I ran out of my bed room, which was windowless, and into the living room to see what was going on. It was only once I was around windows that I could see that something was very wrong. There was a strong white light that was shining through every window of the house.

There were houses on fire, there were people screaming and wailing in the street and I was fairly sure that I could see at least one person who was hanging from one of the lampposts. It was the sky that seemed far more important however. No matter what chaos reigned on earth I had always had the idea the sky would last forever, now however it was nothing but a blank shining white. It was as if everything around the earth had been erased, completely cleared of everything.

Now that it has been a couple of years, scientists have been trying to explain everything, though all they really have what people at the time observed. It all happened so quickly that there were no actual scientific observations taken. It was a sad fact but no one even could say what caused the sky, which had been up for so long, had suddenly decided to fall. What they could say was that what we had always thought of as being an endless expanse had in fact been a cloth like cover around our world, that floated around us with a bluish half and a black half. What we had always thought of as clouds and stars had been tares in that fabric of the sky. Now that the sky was gone the background was revealed for what it was, a shining colorless place that we now were forced to accept for how things were.

Adjustments had to be made to our lifestyles, we had never considered things that we were now forced to deal with every day. The lack of day and night was a good example of this, the hours were indistinguishable and it caused huge psychological strain and damage and caused several new mental diseases to be created. In response screens that faked the changes of light quality they had had at one time were created. It was a inadequate way to deal with the problem but it was something.

To be continued...