RE: What Would You Do? (A writing challenge for Steem and SBD's)

A meteor was heading toward Earth in a futuristic, dystopian time, in my Flash Fiction entry for a Die-Hard Steemit contest, and the elite were flocking to space ships that would take them out of harm's way and off to a new planet--but, ha ha, the meteor never did hit, so those "Left Behind" were actually the Chosen Ones, the meek who shall inherit the earth. I ran out words (limit 500 for the contest) and never did finish the story, and I also missed the deadline for this contest, but I'd have had to do a lot of rewriting to fit the premise. Anyway. A day late and dollar short, if there's any interest, I might go on with this story -- but I have another one in mind just for the contest that I missed. :-) Haven't checked all entries yet to see if anyone else thought of it. My protagonist has read John McCormick's book on NEOs and what we should be doing to guard against them. So my protagonist has four days to convince Russia, China, Korea, and the U.S. to aim all their missiles at the incoming meteor and shatter it to minimize the damage. Let the chips fall where they may. There goes Appalachia! There goes L.A. and Hawaii! But most of the world escapes the incoming rocks/meteorites because they sizzle and disintegrate before hitting the ground. And most, like that recentn space shuttle that was heading our way, will land in the ocean. https://steemit.com/contest/@carolkean/road-to-alt-damerow-by-keangaroo-usd5-flash-writing-contest-die-hard-steem-isle-of-write