How I stopped the apocalypse when I was only 12 years old

Bonus content: a review of a movie that I only watched part of

“Correct!” the local Christian radio show host said. “You’re the winner!”

It was the fall of 1998, and I was twelve years old. I was homeschooled, and in the mornings my mom would turn on the radio while we were eating breakfast and doing chores. Every morning there was a contest where you could call in and answer a Bible trivia question. That day, not only had I known the answer, but I had been the sixth caller, which is what you had to do to win. I was ecstatic. I had gotten the answer right, and I had won a prize. They told me the prize was a new movie (on VHS) that had just been released. A few days later, my mom drove me to the radio station to pick up my prize.

The movie was Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm.

If you are looking at the cover and thinking, “This doesn’t look like it would be a very good movie,” you are correct. But I was 12, and I was not allowed to watch anything rated above PG, and this looked really intense and dark, which I was most definitely into. (Rem…