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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #ScalingDown

“I seem to attract the wrong crowd.”
Magneto, X-Men* #quote



CJ's came over today. Anyway onto the flash fiction!


Scaling Down

        When you go as little as you can get and make the story as itsy-bitsy as you can get, new drama unfolds. Looking below the galactic scale naturally. Not looking at planetary, or the scale of the whole Earth. Not looking at country to country scale. Smaller than states, counties or regions. (However a country would divide itself up). Smaller than cities. Smaller than houses.
Yes, yes, that itty-bitty. Going straight to the people. That should be usual story scale right? But no we're going smaller than people. The insects around them? Smaller than that. What could be smaller than a story of bugs? Perhaps a story of the dirt and its movement through the ages? Grains of sand are small...but not small enough.
         The new drama to be found is within the grains of sand at the smallest of small. Say hello to Adam Atom and his sister(as much as an atom could have a sister) Annabelle Atom. In the atomic world drama fills every moment.
         The atomic bonds that form a substance are a happy little exchange of electrons that balance out reactions. Every nuclear thirsts for the right amount of electrons orbiting it. Whether it gets them from sharing or taking them doesn't make a difference to it. It does make a difference to the larger scale. That's what makes a difference between a bomb and salt.
         Adam and Annabelle share electrons happily and contently as stable atoms would. Through heat, pressure and even turning from mere dirt to an artificial diamond by jewelry machines they stay together along with all the other atoms around them.
         After a century as an artificial diamond their peaceful lives end. Scientists take their cozy little diamond home and use it for experiments. Eventually they see it fit to use for the most powerful of energy reactions: nuclear reactions.
         A type of chaos unknown to Annabelle and Adam happened. Atoms of strange types shot into the diamond. These strange atoms...isotopes or something...they couldn't tell...Annabelle and Adam were too afraid to tell what they were specifically. They only saw them ripping atoms apart from each other. Then they saw the strange incoming atoms breaking individual atoms in two and those pieces breaking more atoms. A strange atom severed Adam and Annabelle. Then it severed Adam and forced a piece of him into Annabelle and tore her in two.
      The bursts of energy from this diamond created a massive amount of energy that supplied tremendous amounts of power to many people. It was considered an incredible success.

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