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baseball field. They had a good game going on , and she could hear their excited cries as one
after another began to float off the ground. Beatrice stared in
horror as the children began to float away. Imagine the parents
seeing their children disappear! At least she and Harold were
inside and could only go so far. What would happen to those
children as they floated higher? Would the floating stop and the
children then plummet to the earth? The thought was too ghastly to
comprehend.
    There were children all over who were starting to float up
in the air. They giggled with glee , not fully understanding what was happening to them. They
were unaware of the danger of their current situation. Little
children who couldn’t be more than eight years old were floating up
in the sky. Beatrice couldn’t remember seeing something more
terrible than that.
    In another direction ,
there was a large parking garage where cars were lifting off the
top and floating into the air. Beatrice couldn’t believe her eyes.
She couldn’t begin to understand what was happening to the world.
Why was everything around them floating away?
    “ Harold …the statue…” It
was all she could get out when she saw the Statue of Liberty
ripping out of New York Harbor. It was a sight to see such a
structure float up into the air. Suddenly, screams of delight were
turning into screams of horror as people began to panic. Others
were dying in the streets right in front of Beatrice’s eyes when
items that were once in the streets began to crush people as they
lifted in the air. People who were driving in vehicles were now
floating in the air. Beatrice watched as a man climbed out of his
car and jumped, thinking that would be safer than to float away.
Blood pooled around his lifeless body. Suddenly, the body lifted as
well as the pool of blood around him. The body and tiny droplets of
blood began to rise up in the air.
    “ Harold ! Dear God, what
is happening?” Beatrice shrieked.
    She got no answer from her husband , who was just as dumbfounded as she was. There was so
much going on around them that it was hard to process it all.
Harold wondered if the world finally had come to an end. It wasn’t
at all what he’d imagined it to be. He’d expected something more
jarring, as the movies suggested, not lying against the ceiling of
his apartment as he watched his neighbors floating off into the
atmosphere. Would they continue flying up into space? Was that even
possible? He was surprised that his old heart was taking the shock
of everything around them. He was just thankful that if this was
the end of the world, he had his wife by his side.
    Beatrice gasped as she saw an airplane that had just left
the airport heading to its destination. The lack of gravity caused
the plane to lose control , and
it started spinning in the air.
    “ Oh , my God,
Harold.”
    But Harold could already see what was happening. The
miserable conditions that the airplane was now flying in caused it
to spin uncontrollably toward the ir apartment building.
    “ I love you , my dear,”
was the last thing that Harold said before the airplane crashed
into the building and burst into flames.
     
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    New York City wasn’t the only area being affected by the
lack of gravity. On the other side of the world , where there was currently a war going on, a
colonel commanded his forces to launch a nuclear bomb and finally
put an end to the war. To everyone’s surprise and awe, however, the
bomb did not go to its intended destination. Instead, it seemed to
just hover in the air for a moment before it floated
away.
    “ Colonel, it’s not just the bomb . Look at the soldiers!”
    The colonel was looking up at the monitor in the command
room and saw that all the robot soldiers that were in the middle of
battle had started to float up
into the air.
    “ What is this? Who is doing this?” He wondered what kind of
weapon their enemy had that would allow them so much
power .
     
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