Up, up, up above, a celestial phenomenon, thousands of years in the making, was about to take place. The planets of the solar system are known to align in useful ways to the advantage of NASA satellite trajectories and fairytale plot-points alike. An alignment here to launch Voyager II and an alignment there to affirm the fate-based love between some storybook Prince and Princess. Because of the orientation of their orbits, however, all 8 of the planets of the Solar System can never truly come into perfect alignment, but every 1000 years or so, they come awfully close.
On July 19th, this awfully close
alignment occurred once again and if that had been the only noteworthy event of
the day, it would have been enough to have been added to the annals of history.
But it wasn't, for two stars in neighboring spirals of the Milky Way had
exploded, years earlier, and it was on July 19th when their supernova-charged
waves of energy reached Earth after funneling through the Solar System towards
the Sun by the newly aligned planets.
It was also on July 19th at 7:40 am when
Maryn Martin, a highly emotional, yet otherwise typical, 12-year-old suburban
girl from Medford, Oregon, stomped into her backyard and up the ladder of her
treehouse to cool down her enflamed emotions.
Copyright © 2022 by David Liam Carrier. All rights reserved. Published by Skaha View Publishing
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