Today's flash fiction #AStoryAboutNothing

“You are getting very sleepy...”

Dominick Cobb, Inception

Well then wrote as per usual, but I also brainstormed a short story that I may cook up to send out to publishers to get build up a resume while planning the new book. Multi-tasking! Short stories build up resumes y'know and speed up the publishing process. More chance to look at your book if you have a precedence of getting published. This short story will be longer than a flash fiction. I also won't be posting it on the blog because a publisher wouldn't want something already on the Internet in full eh? But I will tell you where it is when it gets published if it does.

Anyway onto the flash fiction!

A Story About Nothing

       The nothing starring in today's story is one you're quite familiar with. This nothing has met a few humans personally. Being nothing it isn't a he. But we'll call this nothing a he and we'll name him Tom so we can talk about him easier. Talking about nothing is hard you see.

         Tom is the nothing that is space. The space around Earth. He hugs our atmosphere everyday And Tom met a man named Neil Armstrong a long time ago and hugged the ship he was in. He hugged that ship all the way to the Moon and back. Tom didn't choose to. Nothing didn't have a choice in the matter. But he did it anyway.

       Tom hugs everything around our little blue planet. You could say he gets a lot of friends that way. All the satellites around the Earth are his friends as he's always hugging them. Hug, hug, hug, hug.

But even though he hugs the International Space Station he could kill all the inhabitants inside. So is Tom their friend? Friend or enemy to the people inside he just keeps hugging. Hugs for the space station! And if they come outside in their suits Tom will hug them too. And the nothing will hug them without their suits, no matter the result.

        All the stories to be told about Tom would be him hugging and all the things that pass through him. And this one would be about a meteor he hugged. He hugged and hugged and it passed through him going to us. And he hugged the satellites and he hugged the atmosphere and he hugged the moon. The rock had a course for Earth. The atmosphere could burn up a few pieces but it could smack somewhere and boom. The rock doesn't need to be large. It's the force of the impact.

        But when Tom hugged he hugged in a way that made one of our satellites hit the meteor and along with the way he hugged the moon it went just enough off course to miss the planet. But Tom hugs the same way all the time. He hugged that meteor the same way he hugged the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. And every rock that will come will keep being hugged the same way.