“Celestial Fireworks”
“When the friends reached the bottom of the trail, they turned to look back at the rocky heights. Through some fluke of atmospheric conditions, the sun behind the mesa was shooting out long filaments of white light, filaments that looked like compressed and radiant contrails from multiple rocket launches. The arc of the sun’s top seemed to have lost its coherency and allowed its light to explode outward into the sky. The sun might have been a massive firework that had unexpectedly gone off, sending forth feathers of white light in all directions.”