On the Hill of Arrival

Just a couple of kids, a space craft, and a change that will define them for the rest of their lives.

Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash

The skies were clearer than they had been for months the day they arrived. It wasn’t like in the movies. There was no large spinning disk in the sky that shot laser beams. From where I sat on the hill with Billy and a few of the others, there were no beams…