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Completely Normal
Everything was completely normal in the small town of Haden’s Creek, and no one believed in aliens. Only an hour before the early autumn sun began to set, the restaurants on Main Street were filled with dinner diners. The town’s single movie theater showed “Day of the Triffids,” the 1962 classic. Many of the seniors from the high school used the movie as a chance to make out in the dark.
Kathy and her family were finishing dinner at home, and the single local news station was broadcasting the weather. Things were looking clear and warm clear for the weekend. That was great news for Evan and Trish, Kathy’s fraternal twins, who hadn’t stopped talking about the prom for the past hour. Even as Kathy and her husband Brad started on the dinner dishes, the two kids still jabbered away.
“Can you believe how freakin’ old it’s going to feel?” Trish asked and rolled her eyes.
Evan mirrored her eye roll and said, “Ridiculous, right? They won’t play anything released after like 1950.”
“It’s a formal dance,” Kathy said over the hiss of the faucet. “You’re not supposed to be dirty dancing and grinding.”
Trish turned in her seat. “Nobody said anything about dirty dancing. Would it seriously hurt to at least have music that isn’t from Grandma’s prom?”
“Yeah,” Evan threw in. “The classics. Blowjob Betty. It’s Going Down Tonight. Big Papa.”
Kathy choked on her tongue. Brad chuckled and said, “The classics, huh?”
“You’re so gross,” Trish said. “Maybe some Taylor or something, at least.”
Kathy shut off the faucet and dried her hands, then crossed to the table and put a kiss on Trish’s forehead.
“It’s just music,” she said. “You’ll have a great time, whatever they play. And Danny Thompson is going to look dashing in a tux.”
“Dashing?” Trish said.
“Dapper?”
“Sure, Mom. Dapper.”
Kathy rounded the table and put another kiss on her son’s head.
“And Angie will look beautiful,” she said.
“Hot as… fudge,” Evan agreed.
Trish and Evan shared a laugh that ended abruptly when, through the kitchen window, a flash of light nearly blinded everyone in the room.
“What was—“ Evan said as they all shielded their eyes.
“Jesus!” Brad shouted.
Just as suddenly as it had come, the light vanished. Kathy blinked away spots in her vision and stumbled to the window, where the kids and Brad joined her in peering out.
“What was it?” she asked.
Brad shook his head.
“Solar flare?” Evan suggested.
“You don’t see solar flares, you moron,” Trish said.
Evan shrugged. Then the lights went out. The power kicked back on after only a second, but in the living room the TV showed a black screen and played nothing but a constant tone. The four of them moved toward the TV, and then the outage passed and the news returned.
“Are we back on?” the anchor asked, then nodded to someone off-camera. “We’re back, folks. Pardon the interruption. It looks like we had a little blackout there.”
Brad shrugged and said, “There you go. Just a power out. Completely normal.”
“Completely normal,” Kathy agreed.
“Yeah,” Trish and Evan added. “Normal.”