Caveat

By Sana Ali

Woke up at midnight and found someone sobbing right beside me. Kinda funny, I couldn’t see them. Spooky shivers ran all over my spine and I began praying, “Goddess Gaea help me.” Seconds after I’d finished my prayer, I could see a mesmerizing, beautiful lady, glistening in her own light, crying beside me. She sniveled and wiped her tears and said, “O Max! This is me, Gaea. The world is doomed; people are playing gods. I’ve been disenfranchised by the earth-dwellers, O Mortal of Earth! Goddess of Earth has been marginalized. Tell ’em y’all will be blighted by your own maleficence!”