She stared at the comet: a watercolour of greens and violets. The desert air smelled of rain and conifers.

A black swan, disorientated, descended beside her. It is already too late for us, but you still have a chance.

Yet they waited together, sharing the same air, the same fate.

Michael Anthony Fagan is a Scottish fiction writer, filmmaker, and educator. He is a high school English and Media teacher with Masters degrees in both Creative Writing and Screenwriting.