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The Planets Collide: A Story from the Nightmare Series

               I was 22 or 23 when this happened, so the year would have been 2014 or 2015. If I remember right, this was around the time we were having blood moons, and during those years, every time I turned around it seemed like people were talking about how, on a certain night and at a certain time, you would be able to see a certain planet with the naked eye, because it was going to be closer than it had been in x amount of years.

 Whether that was true or not, that’s all I was seeing at that time, and I woke up one morning and went out for the day. I can remember that the day was filled with lots of fun and laughter: we enjoyed our habits, ran the back roads, and did the things that we did.

 “Hey, have you all been seeing the posts on Facebook lately?” asked one of my friends.

I laughed. “Yeah, I sure did.”

 “Crazy isn’t it?”

I shrugged. “I guess so, if you’re into those kinds of things.”

 “Are you gonna go out and see it this evening?” he asked.

I shook my head. “Nah, I don’t have any plans on going out and looking for a star in the stupid sky, none of that stuff interests me at all, man.”

 “But they say that, that planet’s going to be so close that we’re actually going to be able to see every single detail of it. It’s going to look like earth from space!” he added.

I laughed again, but harder this time.

 “Do you seriously believe that stuff? There’s no way that’s true.”

 My friend grew a stern, serious, and unenthused look on his face.

“I’m telling you, man, they’re even saying it on the news.”

 He pulled his phone out and let me listen to an audio bit from a news cast where the anchor explained that this was going to be the closest approach of a planet, ever, in history and that it was a unique, and as far as we knew, the first time it’s ever happened in the existence of our universe.

 My laughter faded quickly after listening to the audio from the newscast and I shook my head in disbelief, a look of bewilderment on my face.

 “Wow, that’s crazy!” I exclaimed.

“Yeah, but have you ever heard of the planet X story?”

 “Oh, come on, man.” I implored.

“Seriously, man!” My friend insisted. “Doesn’t this event sound like that myth? I mean, think about it! It sounds just like what they describe.”

 I shook my head.

“Whatever, man, I think you’ve been smoking too much.”

 We rode around for a bit longer and our conversation changed from that of legends, and the similarities between them and the event in question, and it changed to a conversation that was more uplifting and joyful, both of us talking about how awesome it was going to be and how it was something that neither of us wanted to miss.

 I dropped my friend off at his house and made my way back to mine, going inside and sitting down on the couch, watching TV for a while before my mom and dad walked in.

 “You coming up on the hill with us?” asked my mom.

“I don’t know; I might come out later.” I stated, as I shook my head.

 “Come on, it’s not going to be a very long event.” She said.

I shrugged and stood up, all three of us walking out the door and up onto the hill; I can remember looking up into the evening sky and seeing an earth-like planet hovering just above our heads.

The crazy thing was, this planet was so close that I could see the oceans on it, I could see lights on its surface.

 “You see those lights?” I asked.

“Yeah.” Said Mom.

 “Pretty crazy.” Dad added.

We continued to watch as the planet hovered in the air, and soon, my brother joined us on the hill, a radio in his hands, and we all stood side by side, listening to the newscast on the radio and staring at the sky, in awe of what we saw.

 Now this planet, the whole time we watched it, looked to be rotating, you could literally stand there and watch it slowly rotating, looking like a duplicate earth: spinning on an axis. Suddenly, the planet appeared to be moving closer, and the News anchor’s voice had a tone of surprise in it as he spoke.

 “Wow! Wow! This is just… wow! I can’t believe what I’m seeing right now!”

“It’s a good time to be alive, Jay.” Said his female co-anchor.

 “Yeah.” The head anchor stated. “Wow! Look at it! Look at how beautiful….”

 The newscast suddenly turned to static, and my brother cursed the radio and turned it off as we continued to watch the planet, but now, it looked like it was falling from the sky.

 I can remember hearing an audible crack that sounded as loud as thunder.

“Hey!” my father shouted, throwing his arms over his head, startled by the event.

 I watched in horror for a few more seconds, seeing that a planet-to-planet impact was inevitable, then my brother and I both turned and started to run away, desperate to get to safety.

 We never said a word, we just ran, and I could hear my parents screaming in horror as the planet slammed into ours; the impact was so powerful that it apparently knocked the whole world off of its axis, and as our planet began to barrel, rapidly, through space, my brother and I were hurled into the air, doomed to be thrown from our planet and out into the vacuum of space.

 I woke up the next morning, my heart racing, and it was one of the only times in my life that I literally breathed a sigh of relief at the fact that the whole thing had just been one big nightmare.

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