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Everlasting
by Nadia Corin

No one expected how the alien invasion happened. It wasn’t ships descending from the sky and armies of green men with ray guns. It was something much more subtle. It began quietly, unseen, and undiscovered until it was too late…too late for us all.

Life can evolve in strange ways, even here on Earth. So why not stranger in the infinite universe? This invader, our conqueror, was nothing more than ice. It even allowed scientists to test it. No DNA, no organic matter of any kind. It was just frozen water, pure H2O, but always in solid form. It didn’t melt with heat, unless it chose to. That was how it expanded, grew, and took our world from us without us even noticing.

It never revealed when it first came. Only that it had spread across every inch of the globe. It could have come down as rain and waited until winter to reveal itself. Or it could have come down in winter and spread slowly across the land. Either way, it was in every square inch of land and water; even the oceans had been fully claimed by it.

The winter it first spoke to us, the world was in a panic. A frost covered the entire world, it even snowed in tropical zones across the equator where it never had before. Its intentions were made clear. We could co-exist with this newfound global organism, or it could remove us from its chosen home. We were like insects it didn’t want to bother exterminating unless they caused a problem. Those who wouldn’t submit were killed with haste. For some, their blood froze within seconds, others were impaled by icicles that formed instantly. It killed in a multitude of ways, all horrible and equally terrifying to witness.

Those of us that were allowed to stay now serve its will. It likes to be worshiped—it thrives on its own ego. So now it is our Lord, our Savior, and our everlasting God.

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Fiction © Copyright Nadia Corin
Image courtesy of Pixabay