[ WP ] You suddenly see something falling from the sky ...

Suddenly, a dark speck appeared in the sky and moved rapidly towards the green Earth. I'll never forget it. I sat, covered from head to toe in dirt, on my front porch. I looked like Huck Finn minus the freedom, having been out priming tobacco all day in the field. 
 
 But now something was falling from the sky. It was tiny, microscopic at that height. The dark figure had come quickly through the bright clouds. It was probably just a hawk, but my imagination tried to make it something more. Was it some sort of alien? Or maybe a superhero? 
 
 Then, just as suddenly, several more dark spots appeared from out of the clouds. A flock of birds? They were pretty high up though. It could have been... 
 
 An apocalyptic boom thundered down from the sky, and after a few seconds of silence the mutilated and flaming hull of a plane emerged from behind the clouds.
