Purple Rain

Do we ever realize, at the moment that it is happening, that what is unfolding is to become the defining and pivotal moment of our life? Or does this realization only come years later, when we reflect and, given the wisdom of time, understand how a single event changed two people's lives forever?

And how a cooler of beer, a Ford Econoline van, and eight high school friends on a road trip to a Prince concert might have changed everything.

"Purple Rain" by BG Davies was first published in The Sun-kissed Summer Romance Anthology.