Jimmy Ferrer

But the entire time I was counting, every second feeling longer than the last.

I felt as though I wouldn't make my goal.

By 2500, they were all standing and beginning to walk towards me.

I was in equal terror and awe as I came to realize their immensity.

Each of them giants, taller than buildings.

They thundered on closer, reaching my space, and some began to reach in through the border between the theater and my home.

One almost had me, until I made the only choice I could.

I opened my front door, looking down upon the endless sky below, and jumped.

My senses were screaming, the air rushing past me, sounding just like the static I heard at the start of all this.

I heard one last cheer from my audience on the way down, and then I hit the clouds and got to see what was below.

which was more of nothing.

All I could see was the clouds now above me and the orange setting sun in the distance.

2,700.

I felt like this for an eternity.

3,551.

3,552.

The nothingness finally broke me, and I saw something in the distance below.

When it came into focus, it looked like a giant, circular, white tile platform.

Two large circles and an upturned crescent cut into its face.

A smiley face.