Event Horizon
ROBERT WALTON
“Get in the car, Martha.”
“Just a minute, George.”
“We’ve got to go."
"CNN said it would be an hour before it hits."
"CNN has been wrong before. We’ve got to get east of the mountains."
"Coming," Martha dropped two lipsticks in her bag.
"You’re taking make-up?"
"Of course."
"This is an evacuation, not an opera opening."
"Do you have the grandkid pictures?”
“In front of the bottled water.”
“George?” she paused, searching the clear dawn sky for something she couldn’t imagine.
George opened the driver’s side door. “What now?”
“Will the mountains block the explosion?”
George’s shoulders sagged, “I don’t know.”
“It doesn’t seem real.”
“It’s real.”
Martha continued studying the pristine sky. “It might be beautiful,” she murmured.
Robert Walton is a grandfather, rock climber, classical musician and teller of tall tales.