The Countdown
#2 of Flash Fiction
Written for the Five Sentence Story competition at ConFuzzled 2013 - I came second! - and illustrated by Major Ward.
FIVE, brayed the voice of Control, making her ears prick and the fur rise along her spine.
A mission FOUR the sake of all furkind, the media had called it.
At the boom of THREE she braced in the launch suit, giddy with pure oxygen, and tucked her tail between her legs.
Her heart beat TWO fast as she thought of the watching millions, the hopes and dreams that would go with her.
In those last instants before zero, before the terrible roar and heat and the crushing, bone-jarring pressure, she and the whole world were ONE.