Always 3 am

There are at least 100 billion planets in our Milky Way.  Many are the size of our earth. We send out signals hoping another planet will respond.

“Christmas was over and Max felt despondent and alone. He had attended one service at church and found the same old story boring except for the part about the star guiding visitors from the ends of the earth to Bethlehem. No one seemed to know where that star came from. 

He felt disconnected from himself, others, and nature. On late-night radio, people called in who had seen and been visited by ships from far away in the galaxy. They came in the middle of the night and Max always woke up for some reason at 3, as if he heard or sensed something out there.

For 2020 Max made a decision to set his phone alarm at 2. On the very first night...”