The eclipse that wasn’t?

I waitedin the balconyway past midnightto see the eartheat into the moon.It was an hour past the startof the eclipseand yet the moonfloated unchiseled,wholesome and round,defying the Earth's shadowlike some people defy reason,according to me.Except in this case,I'd got it wrong.It was a penumbral lunar eclipse,which meant, as Google told me,that the moon would not …

The man who shrank the earth

Prompt: Write from the point of view of a person who changed the course of history. You might know me and my friend Larry. If you don't, you can just google, haha. Who knew a research project would take us this far? We connect bits of information scattered over the earth, Melt it in one …