the day the celebrity company was born

so, the store opened after a final 60-to-0 countdown. cheers resounded throughout the city streets, and cameras were held aloft as people recorded the scene. people were taking their last photos with their non-iPhones. they were well on their way to coolness. you would think there was a foreign dignitary in town, or at least a popular celebrity. but no, but was for a portable technology offering from a popular company.

it takes technology to mobilize a re-evolution. and a post-acquisition franchise coffee.

there is no 13th floor in space

the line had to be taut. the whole time. if one end cut loose, the other would flap in the distant space, awaiting a reconnection that would never come. these connections are so like humans. so fragile. the need to be taught. to love.

the craft had made a narrow escape from the atmosphere, the rusty aft thrusters trustworthy on this day. and she was free. free from the friction that ran through the fiction of earth. no longer. she would pursue a life among the stars.

the day would come when she would, like all things, pass into the night sky, a glittery reminder of what once was. like the stars in the sky, how many years already dead unknown, the distances between friends measured astronomically.