Just before midnight the pacific islanders, or those up too late for their own good, noticed the sea rolling away to the East. They predicted a tsunami that never came. About an hour later they followed the pacific into oblivion.
From space it appeared as a thin red fringe, from pole to pole along the meridian opposite the sun, with a smoldering glow where the core was exposed.
Those further west lost contact first with Asia, Australia, the Middle East.
Americans were temporarily euphoric at their new-found lightness as the gravity bled away to who knows where.
As the world folded in on its self the moon felt the pull of a new master. For the first time in mellinia it had to find a new orbit.
The next day there was nothing for the sun to rise over. It just hung there with nobody left to notice.
