Not much for the “feel good” are ya? []o) Good story, but seems too scientific in its telling, with all the statistics and all, to evoke the emotion you may have been looking for. The second sentence could use a semi-colon or two, in my opinion.
On the other hand, it seems that if the star is in orbit around the sun, the Earth would already be having some weird things happening to its orbital path and associated calamities. This makes it sound like life as usual.
Most poetic apocalypse ever. Nicely told, even if the science is beyond my ability to fact check it. Very nicely done, especially evoking the feeling of utter hopelessness and inevitability, indirectly raising the question of what would you do, or how would you react to such an imminent end.
A captured star would in reality have done its damage much quicker. But I’m playing a little loose with the physics here, for the benefit(?) of the tale. My rationale is that Giselle is a very small star (about 20 Jupiters) and was captured into a highly elliptical orbit of thousands of years duration. A bit hard to fit all that into 1024 chars… :-) But that limitation is what makes Ficly fun. Thanks for your comments, all.
This story has no heroine with grand tetons bounching about, or no muscle bound oaf who yells “yippie ki yay” who just happens to be in the right spot at the right time. It is a simple straight forward tale of acceptance of mankinds fate. I think the last sentence is what put this over the top…and goes to prove the rule of three when writing.
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