The Green Flash

Chapter 1:

“The flash should happen at any moment.”

The speaker of that line was my best friend, if people still use that phrase, for the past 45 years, Conor Sean Kennedy. We were on the deck of his apartment in Manhattan Beach watching the sun make its terminal plunge into the Pacific. This view, the nightly reverence for the final moments of the day was still new to him and in he was showing it off in the…