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It happened just after dawn. The sun had been up for less than an hour. I woke up early that morning because I had to be at work before seven o’clock. Traffic was impossible on Fridays, so I always allowed myself plenty of time. Who would have believed then how little that would have mattered?
I had heard people say it was going to happen all my life. I never truly believed it. I guess I just thought it was a fairy tale. But it wasn’t. Everyone was surprised when the clouds lowered to the ground and people started disappearing all around us. I was stuck in traffic in the inbound lane, and I never saw it coming. I had never seen anything like it. Nobody had.
The morning sun was shining bright, which made it even scarier when the clouds all dropped out of the sky and settled to the earth. I don’t know if it was the sun reflecting off them or not, but the edges of every cloud seemed to have a gold shimmer. Then suddenly cars all around me were empty. Boy was I glad to be sitting in traffic that morning. At least those of us lucky enough to be stopped, weren’t in one of thousands of accidents on the highways.
A lot of people died that day. Planes dropped out of the sky when the flight crews disappeared. Trains derailed. Even the United States President’s plane lost its captain. It was a good thing the co-pilot was still there or America would have been in even more trouble. At least a dozen nations lost their leaders. Not that it mattered since the new World Federation Chancellor declared indefinite global Marshall Law.
I guess my mama went up there in heaven with Jesus. She always told me that someday he was going to come after his church. Well, that’s what I think happened, anyway. It would have been so much easier if I could have just believed what the World Federation mouth pieces told us had happened. But, somehow, men from outer space snatching away millions of people from earth at the same time just didn’t make sense; especially, since most of those people were church goers and little kids. Nope, I believed it was what my mama called the rapture. I don’t know why it caught everyone by surprise. We heard about it all our lives. Yet, in the end, we still couldn’t believe it happened.
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