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Somewhere about 15 miles south of town, where the train crosses, he came to. Again. This time he swerved off and came to a skidding halt in the gravel, hopped out, and made sure his boots were still in the back seat.

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Thomas sighed and tried to explain it again: "I don't know how I ended up here. I don't know how this works. All I can say for sure is I have to invent the self-healing egg shell."

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Their conference room was sterile - glass walls and windows, grays and whites and blacks. The window shades were pulled halfway down to mitigate the afternoon sun. While Andrea prepared for the big meeting, her boss was railing Melissa 4 stories above.

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The three of us couldn't agree on what to do next. Ryan was bordering on hysteria and his judgement was... unsound. Jonathan was using the incident to advance his pet theories about the town. Mine was the only rational course of action.

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Marlene broke the long silence: "I wanna know what happens when you take the penis away." A reply began to formulate in Peter's brain, and became real in his vocal chords: "Well,..."

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Back, before people really lived. Back, before the days of Noah...

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It had been three years since The Weather had arrived. The city was desolate. All the businesses were up for sale, all the people were depressed, and there was no work. But were could you go? The Weather could happen anywhere, to anyone, at any time...

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"I told him to keep his mouth shut! I swear!" Oscar shouted back at Anders with full-throated confidence. Anders and Everett shared a knowing glance, snapped their extendible batons into place, and approached.

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His wine didn't taste the same after she left it open in the fridge

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The first stage of the industrial revolution lead to machines that were stronger than man; the second stage led to AI that was smarter than man. The third, and final stage, led to machines that were vastly more spiritual than man.

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Most people are too polite to do anything but laugh or ignore you throwing Romans at the clubs. "At least I gave them something to talk about," Frank mused.

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"It was true!" she thought. It just *had* to be. What else could cause the fabric to bulge in that shape?

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He was at the end of his rope. He took the knife, and cut deeply into his own arm, ready to die. But instead of blood and muscle, he saw sap, and wood...

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The furniture in the abandoned house was missing, destroyed, or run-down... with one exception: a glass-topped coffee table in the living room. It gave off a brand-new otherworldly glow. Sarah approached it first.

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She'd always remember when her dad said "Son, if you insist on fuckin' her like that, she just gonna run away and cry soon as she can get away."

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In the small room, there were two jars: one of piss, and one of vinegar.

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"Imagine having so little foresight as to pull out fewer chicken wings from the freezer than you needed," thought Tom. The restaurant business was wearing on him.

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In the last 20 seconds, the environment had completely inverted itself. From a vast sand-dune desert, deciduous second-stage forest had erupted. Water supply would be key. And for miles, the opportunity Kelsey could observe was endless. K-93 was rich.

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Angela was on her third night but was working on the same head of lettuce. Three days straight! "Fucking Romaine! Always too much," she uttered to the empty kitchen.

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"It's just too bad," folks would often say. At first, I thought it was just their way of coping; of merging their sickened condition into the general malaise of life. But what I know about this town now could kill.

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"I don't know enough about killin' to kill 'im," he told Tony. Tony stayed silent. He juiced a fourth orange with a handheld device. Time was running short.

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"It's too much," said Samantha. "I can't just take this from you - you have yourself to look after!" But Joey wouldn't be swayed. Unnoticed by either, the gift grew a fraction in size.

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Only five pegs remained on the board. "Why me?" went his internal dialogue. The timer was down to 25 seconds.

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