Bioflash finally returns! -- "Shooting Star"

After a long hiatus, the bioflash have returned! I hope to put up one 100-word story every week.

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“Shooting Star”

Juno burst into Earth’s atmosphere, a stone bullet igniting the night sky. She travelled halfway across the universe to burn up in a brief white flash.

A shooting star, they called her. A nice way to speak of the dying.

But she was no star. A shell of iron, and heart of nickel. Still, 187 wishes were called her way. Juno granted none.

Perhaps, if someone called her by her true name, she would reconsider. But they were too late. Her flaming body, reduced to a bitter kernel, fell forgotten onto Earth, that most disciplined child of the sun.

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Many more bioflash can be found here!