Her Binoculars
Dedicated to my father
My daughter was up in her bedroom as she often is, tapping away at the computer keyboard. Lilac was studying Astronomy, following the legacy that her grandfather the great Astrophysicist known as Michael K, had left behind. She said she that she had been up all night, and was working on an impossible time related physics problem, and not to disturb her until it was time for dinner. My wife Sarah was sitting across from me on the patio when all the sudden we heard a terrible crashing sound, my wife turned to me, “What was that?”