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"Falling (story, very short)"

To be woken by the brightness of street-lighting is annoying at the best of times, but when you find yourself plummeting towards it, that’s when you’ve got a real problem.

I have no idea how I got up here, the last thing I remember is struggling to get to sleep. The humidity was rising, and I was on tossing and turning in the sheets. In all honestly it wasn’t the heat that was keeping me awake, I couldn’t stop thinking how tired I was of my lonely life.

I can hear screams, I’m not alone. Looking around I can see more of us falling from the sky. Holy crap, that’s Ted just beneath me! I haven’t seen him for years. Would you believe he’s still sleeping? Falling through the sky and still fast asleep, boy is he missing out. The city looks beautiful from up here. Mind you, he used to sleep during class, so it’s no surprise. Geoff, my neighbour, is not far away either – I’d know that girlie scream anywhere. He drops the garbage on his foot, he screams like a girl. He’s left his wallet at home, he screams like a girl. You say ‘hello’ to him in the morning, he screams like a girl.

Oh God no, that’s disgusting - I just saw someone hit the ground. He splashed on impact, like a water-balloon being dropped from a window. No one will be able to identify my body after this – not that I have anyone to recognise it. Who the hell would they ask, one of my work colleagues? Wow, I really was Mr Popularity, wasn’t I?

I’m not going to spend my last seconds going over the mistakes in my life though. Christ Geoff is loud - I’m not going to scream like that. I accept what’s coming, and that’s the ground – pretty quickly. There’s got to be some reason for this though. Has the world exploded, throwing us all off it? Nope, the world I’m falling towards looks normal. Maybe the man upstairs had to reboot the gravity machine, and we’re now settling back to Earth? That’s ridiculous, and if that was the case, surely everything would be up in the air, when it only seems to be people. Looks like it’s just the males of the species, so perhaps some man-hating tornado has whisked us all up into the air to pay for our poor treatment of women. But no, I’ve never done anything to deserve this.

Woah, Ted got ripped apart by that tree. Not long for me now then.

Besides, if there was a tornado coming, I would have seen it on the weather report.

The weather, that’s it! I’ll check my watch - it’s just about half past ten. The Weather Girls were right; it’s raining men.

Bland expression remained throughout, I'm afraid.


Yes, I'm dry.

Heh, made me smile.

I'm not ashamed to say that made me laugh. I usually laugh at things I don't see coming (like a bus ... ) and that was no exception.

.. and now I cannot stop singing the damn tune :)

* boogies round office *

Dear God. I'd groan if I had that much energy :)

Thank you.

How utterly bizzare.

Makes me wonder what'd go through my head to wake to find that. What a wonderful story.

To be woken by the brightness of street-lighting is annoying at the best of times, but when you find yourself plummeting towards it, that’s when you’ve got a real problem.

I have no idea how I got up here, the last thing I remember is struggling to get to sleep. The humidity was rising, and I was on tossing and turning in the sheets. In all honestly it wasn’t the heat that was keeping me awake, I couldn’t stop thinking how tired I was of my lonely life.

I can hear screams, I’m not alone. Looking around I can see more of us falling from the sky. Holy crap, that’s Ted just beneath me! I haven’t seen him for years. Would you believe he’s still sleeping? Falling through the sky and still fast asleep, boy is he missing out. The city looks beautiful from up here. Mind you, he used to sleep during class, so it’s no surprise. Geoff, my neighbour, is not far away either – I’d know that girlie scream anywhere. He drops the garbage on his foot, he screams like a girl. He’s left his wallet at home, he screams like a girl. You say ‘hello’ to him in the morning, he screams like a girl.

Oh God no, that’s disgusting - I just saw someone hit the ground. He splashed on impact, like a water-balloon being dropped from a window. No one will be able to identify my body after this – not that I have anyone to recognise it. Who the hell would they ask, one of my work colleagues? Wow, I really was Mr Popularity, wasn’t I?

I’m not going to spend my last seconds going over the mistakes in my life though. Christ Geoff is loud - I’m not going to scream like that. I accept what’s coming, and that’s the ground – pretty quickly. There’s got to be some reason for this though. Has the world exploded, throwing us all off it? Nope, the world I’m falling towards looks normal. Maybe the man upstairs had to reboot the gravity machine, and we’re now settling back to Earth? That’s ridiculous, and if that was the case, surely everything would be up in the air, when it only seems to be people. Looks like it’s just the males of the species, so perhaps some man-hating tornado has whisked us all up into the air to pay for our poor treatment of women. But no, I’ve never done anything to deserve this.

Woah, Ted got ripped apart by that tree. Not long for me now then.

Besides, if there was a tornado coming, I would have seen it on the weather report.

The weather, that’s it! I’ll check my watch - it’s just about half past ten. The Weather Girls were right; it’s raining men.