The Great Slow-Down

No one understood how, we just knew. Especially after walking properly became impossible.…

They had done it.

Whoever or whatever was hovering in front of the moon. It was their tech.

To us, it was like someone had “turned off physics.” It felt like some kind of VR simulation. Too real to be imagined, too unbelievable to be….. real.

Solid structures swayed and warped, coming apart at the seams and flinging their bits into the sky in slow-motion.

Unavoidable panic set in world-wide, until our satellites turned their attention homeward and discovered…. Our planet’s rotation was slowing.