In a small forgotten corner of the galaxy a particle moved. This is not very unusual. If there is any definition of infinity it is the number of small particles in the galaxy. But this was no ordinary small particle. It was a particle that was having an identity crisis. It had examined its existence as a particle and had become very depressed. Being tossed about the universe by great forces, ever being pulled into the opposing camps of matter and energy; it had lost its sense of purpose. Suddenly it stopped its headlong flight to nowhere, ignoring all the laws of physics.

Changing direction, it headed for a small forgotten planet. It flew at an almost incomprehensible speed, powered by sheer will. It sped right through the atoms it encountered in the atmosphere, paying no heed to their empty space. It sped onward until it encountered an atom of nitrogen, or rather a neutron in said atom. Smacking into the neutron with force far exceeding its infinitesimal mass, it forced the nitrogen atom out of its bonds.

And it was over, the particle was forced to change into energy, giving up the ghost of conscious knowledge it had held for so little a time. The nitrogen bonded with a carbon, which nabbed a stray potassium, and it was over.

Or maybe it wasn’t over, the nitrogen had been part of cytosine, which had been part of a DNA strand, which had been in a brain cell. This small alteration caused a protein to form incorrectly.

It was one of quite a few proteins that formed with little errors on that day, and it appeared to be quite unremarkable. But this protein had a life of it’s own, it started to change all the proteins around it into it’s own twisted shape, till finally the cell fell in a twisted ruin. It spilled the malicious proteins out into the body, where they began to wreak havoc on all the surrounding brain cells. Fortunately, this was the brain of a cow.

Kevin Donovan bit into his juicy burger as he plotted the murder of his ex-girlfriend. It would take a while, but he could wait. His mind plotted her death with a cold calculating reason.

A few months later his pieces were all in place, but Kevin was dead from BSE.

Ok, that’s the end.