Welcome to Fiction Friday – They Never Saw it Coming
Winter is slow to release its icy grip on spring time. Tulip and Iris bulbs sleep frozen earth. But the Quaking Aspens defy Old Man Winter and sport some understated blooms.
Little by little the grass begins to green. Bunnies play among the fawns and birds try to get to the bird feeders before the squirrels and deer empty them.
Some things you’ll never see coming. It isn’t written in the stars. It will come like a thief in the night.
Afterward all sorts of people, religious groups and network news analysts will lie and say they knew it all along.
The Tulips and Irises will wait. It is going to be difficult for wild things but they will adapt. Human kind? Well… first ‘hearts will go out’ and slogans will pop up and different groups will try to help pick up the pieces and put them back. But soon everyone will begin thinking of themselves.
Some people are survivors. Some are great at coping. Some will lay down and die. It is going to be a difficult time and when they write the history books they’ll agree they never saw it coming.