We Remembered All The Light (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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They called it by different names at first: The Day of Brotherly Love in Philadelphia, The Day of Presence in Tucson, the Day of Angels (predictably) in Los Angeles. From Oslo (The Great Unfreezing) to North Korea (The Day of Opening), people were compelled to give a name to the inexplicable event that had miraculously happened to them.

It seemed to sweep over the earth in a kind of wave. There had already been warnings about solar storms, some kind of eruption on the surface of the sun. There were concerns about power grid outages and disruptions of satellite communications. Few people paid any attention to these warnings, which had been commonplace lately and never seemed to amount to much compared to the dire predictions. Thus no one (except perhaps for some psychics and scientists?) foresaw what actually happened when the solar rays hit earth.

It began in the morning as the sun was peeking up over the horizon. For those with a view of it, the sun seemed more intense somehow, more colorful than usual, somehow mesmerizing. Those watching began to feel blissful. As each city and town brightened in the morning sun, a strange, crackling energy came with it. Some people reported hearing a kind of static. Others heard music-otherworldly harmonies and melodies. And even if it was raining, a strong sense of wellbeing began to percolate within the human population, like a dry sponge soaking up moisture.