Strange Lights

 

“Do you see them?” Bill says.

“Yes I see them” John says back.

“What are they?” Bill says with more excitement.

“Plane maybe?” John says with less excitement.

“That’s no plane John” Bill says with a hint of fear.

“Oh really, so what is it then?” John replies, clearly losing interest.

“It has to be them,” Bill finishes.

Just then, the lights started to fall from the sky.

I step out of my truck, the cool evening air slaps me in the face, I shiver slightly and pull my collar up and over my cheeks. 

This all started about an hour ago. I was home and warm and settling in for the night when my phone started ringing. I debated letting it go to voicemail and dealing with the fallout in the morning but convinced myself otherwise. 

The call didn’t last long. A pair of stargazers gone missing and multiple eyewitnesses to some strange lights in the sky.

We all knew they would come back one day.

We just didn’t think it would be so soon.

About ten years ago, our sleepy little town had some guests. 

It all started one night with some lights in the sky, just one or two at first and we didn’t really think much of it, who looked up anymore.

Anyway it turns out that we should be looking up more because something was looking down.

More and more appeared and people started noticing, the town began to descend into chaos.

It was the end of days as many thought, then the lights started coming down and no one was ready for what came.

We took to calling them “angels.”

They didn’t have wings or anything like that, and to my eyes looked more like demons, but we have a lot of optimistic and god fearing people in this town, so “angels” they became.

They had been silent for a week after arriving and a small village of people had begun to settle around the oddly shaped ship.

Many started worshiping the creatures and had brought offerings and trinkets of all kinds, they even started a new faith, entirely devoted to them.

The fervour only increased when they revealed themselves and made one request.

To this day I don’t know why so many people were willing to follow along.

They wanted pregnant women. Any age, colour, or creed, it didn’t matter.

If you were pregnant, they wanted you.

People came from everywhere, thousands of women began to flock to the ship.

One by one they entered the craft and one by one they exited.

Three days this procession continued and on the fourth day they left.

The “angels” just left.

It was also on the fourth day that we realised something.

Every pregnant woman that entered the ship did not leave pregnant.

Every fetus and every baby of any stage in the pregnancy was gone.

We have no idea what they did or what they wanted with so many unborn.

One thing I do know though as I look up  at the night sky. 

They are back.

My vision is filled with strange lights in the sky and they are descending.

This time I am ready.

I have spent ten years waiting for this day.

I will get my daughter back.