Light Riders

Written for the Daily Flash Fiction Challenge with a word limit of 300.

The prompts: This story must contain the phrase "nothing will ever be the same".


Light Riders

The Light-Riders came to town on the backs of photons that had been traveling flat out since moments after the Big Bang. They had been chasing us for eons. Long before the formation of our “third rock”, the laws of physics had decreed that they would catch up to us eventually.

Some blamed the devil, other blamed God. I blame Einstein. He made the world curious. Without putting his finger directly into the soup, he stirred up mankind’s quest for knowledge of things once considered unknowable.

Nano-technology is his fault, albeit indirectly. If we had just left well enough alone we never would have suspected that we had been invaded. Ignorance is indeed, bliss. I like the idea that “If I can’t see it, it’s not there.” This is especially true when it comes to aliens bent on human conquest.

Unfortunately, science has provided us with perfect information. Now that we know where to look, we find them everywhere. They are in out food, our yards; even in our bodies. These little microscopic invaders are tireless in their efforts. They need to be for they are small and they have much work ahead of them.

Their plan is to take over everything. They want to soften us up; make us more pliable to their demands. The intent is to change us so we will accept them as our rulers. We will become as sheep.

I must admit that this idea use to scare me, but not so much anymore. I can see how their plan can benefit everyone. There will be no more wars; no more sickness or hunger. Nothing will ever be the same.

I think they got here just in time.

Word count 283