A Very Strange Experience

"Hello?” I asked, hoping to find someone, anyone, still alive …

Having seen only a smattering of cars in the lot at a few minutes after 7 on a Sunday evening, I’d known the place would not be packed. But when I entered, I thought I’d stepped into one of those Twilight Zone episodes during which our hero finds him/herself the only living person on Earth. Even the music, which had seemed a little obnoxious in volume outside, was much more quiet and subdued inside.

The well appointed club had obvious been inhabited at some recent point. All of the red neon and recessed lighting was illuminated and several video screens were on. Smaller ones behind the bar ran club video loops while two large ones on either side of the stage showed Sunday Night Football (left) and some other event I can’t recall (right).