Creative non-fiction micro, Patrick Johanneson
Patrick Johanneson
The light, the light
Just two days before this, I turned fifty. It’s possible, if unlikely, that the sun launched the coronal mass ejection that caused this display on my birthday; maybe even at the exact moment of my birth + a half-century.
I sat out under this sky for a couple hours, watching the lights dance for everyone but also for me. They were better by far than candles on a cake. I thought of Kurt Vonnegut’s uncle’s saying—If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is—and I smiled.
Patrick Johanneson writes prairie-flavoured science fiction & fantasy. His work has been published in On Spec, Tesseracts 14, Daily Science Fiction, and Parallel Prairies, among others. He won the Manitoba Short Fiction contest in ’04. He’s also a WordPress Multisite maven, an amateur photographer who appreciates a good aurora, a judo instructor and referee, an aficionado of Canadian and indie cinema, and a lover of Norse mythology. Patrick lives in Manitoba with his wife Kathleen. Check out his website at https://patrickjohanneson.com/
