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bottle out of his pocket and reads the back. Taking more
than recommended dose will result in serious illness or death . He places it
on his nightstand next to some sleeping pills and dresses in his pajamas. He
still wants to feel comfortable when he goes.
    Cole
gets into his bed and under his covers. He takes a sip of water and swallows
three pills and keeps doing this until all the pills are gone.
    He
turns off his lights, closes his eyes and empties his mind. The darkness starts
to go away, fading into loneliness which fades into emptiness. This is how he
wants to go, peaceful, painless. There is glowing star in the distance of the
emptiness, he tries to push it away but it continues to approach him. He lets
the emptiness surround it, just cloaking it but he can feel it’s there, but
this is good enough. He doesn’t fear death anymore, he welcomes it.
    He
lets all his problems fade away.
    He
just wants to sleep forever.

3
- An Execution
     
     
    The
Hawaiian sun sets over a beautiful coast, its radiance
melts into the dark blue sky. Somebody or something descends from the clouds.
Slowly it lands on the warm sands of the beach, the other beach-goers don’t
notice it. It’s Leif, a Serephin, an alien.
    He
has oddly distinct human features, except that he’s seven feet tall, has sickly
green skin, a slightly horizontal shaped head, and two holes that bore out of
his face from where a human nose should’ve been. A scar runs diagonally across
his face with many claw marks on the left side. He wears dark silk robes.
    Leif bends down and grabs a handful of sand.
    It
begins here.
    The
forging of the perfect.
    The
sand in his hand glows white, a gust of wind whisks it into the sky. Each
individual grain glows like a firefly, disappearing into the air, as specks of
pure energy. Leif lets the sand trickle from his five fingered hand as he
stands.
    A
Delta passenger airplane flies in the sky in the distance. Leif turns to his
side, lifts his arm and points at it in the shape of a gun. With a flick of his
thumb, the plane explodes into a million fiery pieces. Leif’s arm drops as he
watches the hell rain over him.
     
    …
     
    At
the White House, the president strides down a hallway with a sense of purpose.
The Secret Service and his personal secretary trot alongside him.
    “The
meeting will begin when you arrive, Mr. President,” his secretary addresses
him.
    The
president doesn’t answer, he can’t; too much is on his mind. The human race has
finally done it, they have finally received a message from the confines of
outer space, however it’s not a message of peace but
of a threat.
    They
burst through the conference room doors. The room is filled with cameras and
computer screens on the conference room tables. All of the screens show the
world’s leaders, the Russians, the Chinese, the UK, the Iranians, all the big
ones. It took a threat like this to finally, hopefully, bring the world
together. When the threat is otherworldly, hostile nations around the globe are
finally up for talks of peace.
    The
US’s most important figures are crammed in the room: the secretary of defense,
John York, rushes over to the President.
    “Brief
me on the situation so far,” the president demands.
    “All
of our defenses and counter protocols have been hacked, sir. We still have
access to our satellites, however, most of our computer systems have failed.”
    York
places his hands on the table, sweat on his brow. “I’ve never seen anything
like this. They broke through everything in seconds!”
    “How
can we be sure it’s not from Earth? Maybe it’s some kind of new Chinese
technology,” the president asks, his ignorance showing.
    “Mr.
President, why would we agree to this meeting if it was our own people who
initiated the attack?” The Premier of China asks hostilely from one of the
screens. They’re never going to get anywhere if he himself doesn’t trust anyone
and open up, the president thought.
    “My
apologies, Mr.