Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. This is the third installment since its return and the image this week is extremely compelling as is the story that accompanies it. The concept for the challenge remains the same. I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. Without further adieu, this weeks image…
November 12th, 1833 is known at “The Night the Stars Fell.” On that night a meteor shower blanketed North America with an astonishing display. One Illinois newspaper described the sky as “being ablaze” another from Alabama eloquently described the event as “Thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.” It is estimated some 72,000 meteors fell from the heavens per hour. Today we know the November meteor event as the Leonids. It occurs as every year as Earth passes through debris left in the wake of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. The display peaks in intensity every 33 years though none have rivaled the 1833 event.
This week’s image is taken from a hand drawn newspaper image from the period. The image shows settlers from a small town looking up into the heavens as shooting stars fill the night sky, like rain falling from above.
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