Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven. Just your typical late night in Los Angeles, only, why does the moon look so bright tonight? What begins as the end of a long mundane day with an extra delight in the sky slowly turns into something so much more. What would you do if this were your last night on earth? I believe it won the Hugo for best short story the year it came out.They made an Outer Limits out of this one with Michael Gross and Joanna Gleason, but changed the setting from Los Angeles to a small community in the mountains and lost a lot of the tension as far as I was concerned.
One of the great things about Inconstant Moon is you can read it on-line at the Larry Niven site.
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