The Meteor's Gift

In year 2032 Mother Nature turned against us. A 11.3 earthquake shattered Los Angeles and most of the rest of California. Tsunami's swallowed most of the worlds coastal cities and ice storms covered everything north of New York. Of course this was nothing compared to the coup de grace. A meteor the size of Ireland heading straight for Houston.

My name is Jonathan and I live in Houston.

As expected with the end of the world literally on the horizon, crime and looting is at an all time high across the world. Some pray to old or new gods in hope of averting the coming disaster. Its quite funny, I'm a well known fantasy writer in the southern states and this very much reminds me of one of my novels.

I grabbed a champagne glass and the 6,000 dollar Dom Perignon I had bought in anticipation for this day. I walked out on my balcony and poured myself a glass as I watched the impending flaming doom stretching from horizon to horizon. And finally a darkness consumed me and I felt nothing. No pain. No hellscapes just darkness.

Then I saw it, the smallest most infinitesimal light in the distance, but I was immediately drawn to it. The light getting bigger and bigger until I heard it, the whimper of a dying child and I knew I had to help. I slowly moved into the light and into another world.