joeislove's 100-word story for April 13, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on April 13, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

They came at dusk, plummeting in from the upper atmosphere, residual heat from entry boiling the moisture in the air until they were cloaked in roiling clouds. From the beaches, we watched them settle over the sea, storms forming around them. We only had vague ideas of what they looked like under it all. Hazy radar images, blurred photos from a few weather satellites. They hung there as night came on. The EMP from their entry had killed our electric grid; we had no lights at all. By sunrise they were gone. I still don't know what they look like.

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