The Reconstruction of Fallen Stars

  When an asteroid hits the Earth, the impact can be felt miles away, there is fallout, and a crater is left behind, each of these things takes a different amount of time to return to a "state of rest," a kind of "normal." Quite quickly the earth stops trembling, a few hours, or a day or two later the dust has settled, and the people affected are clearing up the debris, and given time even the crater my be filled in, and the planet is healed. I don't really remember the chain of events of that first day, I know I found things that I wish I hadn't, I know I made phone calls, and who I spoke to, but not what order it all happened, I was frightened, and confused, and angry. Then I was alone. The last shock-wave passed, (there would be an after-shock, but at the time I did not know it,) and the dust started to settle, you can't see the crater when you're in it, but the world feels a very different place. I've been told since, that I seemed very calm

Imagine... A life well lived. I didn't think I'd have to  imagine it, I thought we were living a life well. It was as close to heaven as mortals may experience while alive. I was wrong. Cooking breakfast on a Sunday morning, the idea that a knock on the door would shatter my life was so infinitely far away, that it would never have occurred to me. As it happened, I never even heard it, but that knock came. My life was shattered. The man I had loved for more than a dozen years had made a series of terrible decisions, and was on his way to a police station. I 'm not going to detail what he's done, it is enough for you to know that he got in trouble, and that trouble broke my heart, and took away my trust of him. You might ask "what's the point if you can't trust him?" Well I have your answer: because being without him, hurts more than all else.  I was left behind, confused, heartbroken, and with no idea of what to do next. The only thing I knew in those