Let's Do The Time Warp Again

Anthony Brooke woke up feeling a bit groggy and disoriented.  His surroundings were not strange, but they were totally unfamiliar to him.   Something was not right .He was in bed in a small bedroom with vintage furniture (that looked brand new) .  He was still dressed as he was in his last memory of driving his Kia through Kansas to get to Wichita for a appointment the next morning.  He recalled his car suddenly failing , the engine stalling, and the lights going dark.  He looked out at the dark starry sky on this lonely road wondering how he was going to get help out in such an isolated area, and then, suddenly, he woke up to a sunny day in this house.  It was quiet.  Getting up, he looked out the window, seeing a small town in the desert. No trees.  No sounds.  He looked next door into the neighbors window.  There were people sitting at a dinette set up for a meal.  But they did not move.  The kitchen looked like something out of 1950, all turquoise and chrome.  It was like a tableau in a old Department store window.  Tony went to his kitchen.  The cabinets were all full of food , unopened.  He opened the fridge.  No light came on.  No power.  Empty.  Light switches also nonfunctional.  Walking out the front door to outside , he was puzzled finding more of the same- brand new cars just sitting idle.   People , no, mannequins of people,  standing immobile. 

Tony took out his I-Phone, having just enough  time to see there was no signal, when he heard a piercing siren coming from a tower in the center of the village.  Soon came a blinding light, horrific wind, and then... nothing.

Now, there are three things I need to relate at this juncture.  One- on May 5th 1955, 65 miles outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, a  top secret project named “Apple-2" detonated an atomic bomb from atop a tower centered in  a specially constructed model town built to evaluate the effects of an atomic explosion on a typical American community.  There is no record of anyone inadvertently left behind at the site that day, but, of course, if someone had been there, they would have been incinerated instantly .

    Two- May 4th, the evening before the blast,  there were numerous reports from pilots over Nevada, and many calls from concerned Las Vegas residents, of heightened UFO activity observed.  Accounts were dutifully recorded and filed away “Top Secret” by the military.  They remain secret to this day.

Third, and perhaps most pertinent to my story here; the question,  “How am I able to tell you all about this today? “

I know you probably have more questions , but I’m late for my ride home right now.

                                                       Perhaps... another time?