Upside down world

MERCURY ISLAND

 

The sky is clear. Stars twinkle, blink at the ocean. The its waves send white caps back to the stars. A liner, a gargantuan liner stretches for miles in the dark water. Lights glow. Soft music floats thru the air out to the sea and is gone forever.

 

A thunderous roar breaks the sweet silence. The ship's outline is fading fast. Stars do their best to shed light on the water, but they are too late. There is no ship, no happy dancing people. Dust fills the air faster than eagles fly, fish dangling from their talons, sustenance for the baby chicks waiting, chirping, watching.

 

As the water settles down, a calm comes over the sea. Thor has gone  elsewhere and the waves dance a waltz.  A lemony yellow moon shows its face that is marked with potted scars. No eyes see it but mine. I feel the earth still spinning on its axis and feel myself being tugged away.

 

Where is the god who decided to create dinosaurs, fish, snakes, life of many kinds? Why is he/she/it, forsaking his masterpiece?  From the ocean rises a dark, smokey funnel. It creates a burning odor of poisoned tar. A whirlwind rises, drops, falls back into the bubbling water. The smell remains, blankets everything. The funnel bores its way into the water, disappears in its great depth. Hot rocks come flying from the water spout. Strange, awkward, colorless creatures with long legs, pincers, are thrown high in the air and come tumbling down, falling again into the sea. Black rocks that look like coal are shooting everywhere, spraying icy cold water. 

 

The maker of this world must be angry, may be planning total destruction and a chance to start over. A dirty gray piece of the ocean liner floats by. No one clings to it. Empty life rafts move quickly away.
Doom is coming. The sky is so black it can get no blacker. It is descending lower and lower and swallows every floating thing. Fear fills my lungs. I scream, scream so loud my father comes running in to see if I have been murdered. He makes fun of me for sweating beads of fear.
Sleep is over.

 

At dawn sirens sound. I turn on t.v. and headlines on every channel let the world know, Mercury, the planet Mercury, has disappeared from the sky. There is a huge black hole, visible to the naked eye. Scientists tend to believe Mercury is now in the Indian Ocean. If the glittering, shiny thing that appeared overnight in the Indian Ocean isn't Mercury, what is it?

 

The conclusion so far is that we have one less planet and one new island.
No reservations will be taken until more is known.