Published: National Flash Fiction New Zealand

Two Isotopes

When two isotopes of the element Hydrogen collide under extreme heat, like cars crashing into each other at high speed, they lose fragments of themselves, forming particles and creating energy so powerful the pieces fuse to form an entirely new molecule, which happens over and over until eventually 150 million kilometres later light arrives through the window into our lives laying a thin blue line into our laps which we cradle unsure, wondering about the enormity of it all and whether this thing happening is real.