The Day the Screens Went Blank by Danny Wallace

Author:Danny Wallace [Wallace, Danny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2021-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

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A few hours later, it’s that amazing time of day.

You know the time I mean? I think they call it Golden Hour. It’s when the sun is nearly setting and everything looks all dreamy and warm. We get some great ones in Mousehole, where the whole harbour lights up and the boats all cast long shadows across the water. Every little ripple has its own reflection of the sun and blinks it at you; thousands and thousands of them shining, all saying hello at a slightly different moment.

Where we are right now there are mainly hedges. We’ve stopped in a small gravelly car park by some woods and the only thing that’s spoiling Golden Hour is Dad kicking the front of the car.

He’s saying, ‘No,’ a lot to himself.

‘No,’ he’s going, as he kicks. ‘No. No. No no no.’

Mum’s trying to keep things light.

‘There was a petrol station back that way,’ she almost sings.

‘That was miles away,’ growls Dad. ‘There must be one closer?’

The second the car started to run out of petrol Dad had gone into complete denial.

Even though the car was juddering and choking and jerking and jolting, Dad had just kept acting like everything was absolutely fine.

It was only when it had died completely and slowly rolled to a halt in the middle of the road that Dad had accepted we were stuck.

That was when he took his foot off the accelerator, pulled up the handbrake, and folded his arms.

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