I feel just awful. I'd promised, long ago, that I would dedicate tuesdays to Very Short Stories and I forget just about as soon as I'd remembered. Looking at my library of unpublished entries today, I discovered the missing second installment of Very Short Story Tuesdays. It's called "Earth Day" and it goes like this:

The sky returned the planet's nervous smile.

Maybe it was better to quit from the start. Anyway, I will try to remember this feature for upcoming tuesdays, for a little while at least. (even though it's technically wednesday now)