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Gordon spent a full ten seconds and more trying to determine whether he had gone insane.

A dense hail of machine-gun bullets hung suspended before his eyes, the muzzle flashes like spilled paint frozen solid.

The whole world seemed to have been put on pause.

Before he could even consider what had caused all this, a droplet on the back of his hand was suddenly plucked up by an invisible force and flew into the sky.

The bullets moved backward, the muzzle flashes shrank, and the sky turned from light to dark.

Until the last drop of light drained from his eyes.

The entire world fell into chaos.

Beep, beep, beep, beep!

The digital clock sounded at precisely 7:15.

Sunlight slanted through a gap in the curtains at a thirty-degree angle, falling on his twitching eyelids.

Gordon opened his eyes in a daze.

He seemed to have had a long nightmare. Cold sweat had soaked his sheets.

A fair hand slipped beneath his pajamas and emerged through the collar, gently scratching the stubble on Gordon's chin. It felt like being licked by a cat's barbed tongue.

"Darling, you slept so restlessly last night. What were you dreaming about?"

Gordon turned his head. Barbara's eyelashes shimmered in the faint morning light, a sleepy, silly smile hanging on her lips.

"I've already forgotten. It was only a dream, after all."

He took off his pajamas and walked barefoot across the sun-warmed floor.

A shower, a glass of milk, a stubbly greeting for his darling daughter.

In Gordon's memory, this was what he did every morning.

But just as he finished getting ready and picked up his briefcase, an urgent knock sounded in the hallway.

Who would visit this early in the morning?

His wife went to answer the door with a