“Hi, again, wicked, gorgeous, unimaginable vastness of the universe.”

Ok, I admit, I was sitting here with zero ideas for a 50 word fiction. I even thought I’d write the fiction first, and let the theme come out of that, but nothing happened. Blank screen. Then I read Mark Morford’s latest article, about the Kiwa hirsuta, the blond, blind new mysterious crustacean that has been discovered. I wasn’t inspired by it, per se, but more by a sentence in the article. “Hi, again, wicked, gorgeous, unimaginable vastness of the universe.” Oh the amazing things we do not yet know, and have yet to discover. Take out of that what you will, if you chose to play this week.

Just to be Sociable I’ll Take Your Word*

He craned his neck and watch the object soaring above him.

“Is this it?” He asked. “Have I seen everything now, now that I’ve seen an elephant fly?”

They ducked as the pachyderm dove into a deep swoop and then up again. She took his hand.

“I doubt it.”

*From “When I see an Elephant Fly” from the movie Dumbo.