One year back in school I lived in a place pretty far from campus. We had a bus stop a couple blocks over, but that line only ran during “business hours.” So if I had any late classes I had to take a different line that dropped me off a looooong way from home.
After one particularly late Friday class I caught the very last bus of the night and it drops me off for the long dark walk home.
So there I am, all alone with nobody in sight, walking along a dark, desolate stretch when all of a sudden I’m blinded by a brilliant white light. And when my eyes adjust I see I’m in the middle of a circle of intense light coming from directly above me.
Then I notice I’m not alone. I’m surrounded by living things, creatures with silver skin and black beady eyes!
Then the light flew off and left me standing once again in the dark.
It was one of the coolest moments of my life.
The best part was how hit hit me by surprise, I wasn’t expecting it all. Yeah, I knew the police helicopter came down that stretch of beach every night somewhere between 10:00 and 11:00, but it came up from behind me that night so I didn’t see it coming. And I had no idea the
grunion were running that night.
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