Horror Haiku Club Prompt

August 29 - Gamma Ray Burst

When a star dies it implodes, the result is a burst of light that typically releases the same amount of energy the sun will burn through in ten billion years, but in only a few seconds.

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Your prompt is GAMMA RAY BURST.

Body collapsing

Your energy pulled inward

Death throes a death ray

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Gamma ray bursts are extremely rare. Such a release of energy has never been observed within the Milky Way Galaxy, but some scientists hypothesize that a gamma ray burst may have caused a mass extinction on Earth during the Late Ordovician, about 445 million years ago.