Memory Train
“Robin, what are you doing here?!” A voice yelled from the distance. The Earth shook violently under Robin’s feet as the sound of falling rocks and rushing water surrounded him. One moment he was driving in his top-down red corvette, to Escalante Canyon, a frequented hiking spot during his college years. The next moment, the mountain loomed higher and the river of the canyon became a waterfall as he drove further in. When he first arrived to the parking area of his favorite trail, he saw a man who had been his close friend during college, but they had gotten busy with life after graduation, they lost touch with each other. He asked with a smile on his face “what are we doing here Robin?,” but just as soon as he did, the surroundings began to shift. The ground rumbled as the mountains moved away yet reached higher to the skies , the roar of the river-turned-waterfall grew more intense and louder. The car disappeared, along with his friend and Robin couldn’t gather his thoughts- the sudden yet gradual change frightened him. The rumbling seemed to slowly fill his body and then the voice shouted -“Robin, what are you doing here?!” Robin could hear him but couldn’t see where his friend was. The scene started to darken as if he was falling away from it. He glanced at the waterfall, then the skies above the mountains, feeling the rumbling of the Earth, confused to what was happening.
