Pianos Falling Like Angels by S. Magpie
Sun and Moon collided one day as Bird tried to gather them both to its breast. It was a Terrible Disaster.
This is how it happened. Sun and Moon loved Bird, but there was too much love, and it began to swell in their stomachs. It began to rot and give them ulcers and heartburn and aneurysms.
She was a safe distance away, she and the stars that were swinging through on translucent vines as if it were a jungle, and maybe it was. Who knows?
Everybody wanted to see. Everybody wanted to watch, to know who was going to fall first. Nobody was yelling, but there was all this noise, like the sound of pianos falling down staircases and out of windows. The girl who was drifting by in a hot air balloon thought of every building in New York City bursting with falling pianos.
How the pianos would spill down the stairs and into the streets. Out of the windows of every floor, kamikaze pianos. In the streets, harassing the angry yellow taxicabs, mangled pianos. Pianos falling like angels, everywhere.
She didn’t know why she had thought of it. Pianos. There was just her and the balloon, and a gazillion drunken stars swinging from place to place in some great wide sky jungle. And the Terrible Disaster. That, too. She just kept floating, because there is not really any way to tell a balloon which way to go. The basket in which she sat was a giant walnut-shell. She had a pocket full of precious things.
I wish I had met her, the girl in the balloon.
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About the Author
S. Magpie
Born: Northeast Wisconsin
Now Resides: Spruce Pine, North Carolina
Online: www.smallsignificant.tumblr.com and www.howtodrawasquid.wordpress.com/ Bio: S. Magpie once hitchhiked to Mexico in search of a perfect tomato. She has a habit of moving to places she knows very little about, and prefers satsumas to clementines. She loves opera, which she hesitates to mention on first dates, for fear of sounding pompous. She is currently working on a project called Small Significant Things, which is a collection of “delightful” stories told through various means, offered by strangers. She has been been published at Staccato Fiction (2010) and MiPOesias Magazine (2006, under Stephanie Vaughan).
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