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Oh well, I thought, she must've somehow gotten disconnected, turned off or something. I had heard
of that happening but had never seen it. "How about that," I told Lazarus the Puppy, "kids in The Realm.
Bad enough they're in the Framework, but The Realm. Weird stuff, hunh? Yeah, that's right, you're a
good puppy." I tugged on Lazarus's left ear and scratched his neck. The little guy looked up at me with
sad little two-month-old puppy dog eyes. My mom and dad had given him to me recently as he was a
pup from the last litter of the family dog, Molly. They had kept a family dog from the same genetic line
since I was a kid; it was sort of a tradition.
The news alert icon had continued to blink since I lost contact with JackieZZ, but rather than worry
about it I decided that I was going to get another beer. Upon arrival at the fridge I realized that I only had
one forty left, the horror. "Oh God, Lazarus, we're out of beer! Go to the store and fetch some boy,
good boy!" Lazarus just lay there chewing on his squeaky toy and didn't respond other than his ears
propping up at the sound of his name.
Then I remembered where I had heard of the Framework connections being disrupted. It was a few
months ago when the meteor destroyed Colorado and part of Wyoming.
Oh my God, I thought. I frantically grabbed the remote and opened up the news alert icon on the
TV, afraid of what I might see. "Let's just see what the talking heads have to say!"
" . . . again, so far to our knowledge, there have been huge explosions or perhaps impacts, near Los
Angeles and off the coast of Cape Kennedy, Florida."
"Mom and Dad! Carly! No!"
" . . . We have no idea what has caused such explosions. It is possible that these are events,
which are similar to the one in Northern Florida and the catastrophic impact in Colorado a few
months ago when the meteor hit there, but we have no confirmation of that yet. Wait . . . just a
moment, my God, there has been another impact or explosion, or whatever it is, in Europe. It
seems to be centered near Ramstein, Germany . . ."
I watched television for the next fourteen days straight, only going out for food, puppy treats, and
beer but immediately returning home as quickly as possible. I was numbed by the total destruction and
loss of countless millions of lives around the world that evening. The meteors impacted all around the
globe, in China, Russia, North Korea, Germany, California, and Florida. I never heard from poor little
JackieZZ again. That broke my heart.
On top of that, I'm from Bakersfield, California, which is just about fifty miles north of Los Angeles.
My entire list of living relatives that I know about were all gone! Everybody I could connect with or could
count on as family, were vaporized in an instant. My high school was gone and probably most of my high
school chums. There would be little reason for a ten-year reunion.
 My mom and dad and my little sister, Carly, were gone. The house that I had known as home all of
my lifeтАФgone. Sure I lived in Dayton now, but home was still Bakersfield, home was still where Mom
and Dad and Carly lived. Home was still where we had raised generations of our family dogs since I was
little. Home was still where I built the tree fort in the back yard with my buddies when I was nine. Home
was still where I went every holiday and vacation. But now, it was goneтАФall gone.

I missed work for two weeks straight and I sure as hell didn't make it to any of my college classes. In
fact, I wouldn't make it back to college for a long time and I got fired from that job. Oh well, who needs
it; the world just nearly got destroyed, man! And, and I was alone, just Lazarus and me.




CHAPTER 2
Things were okay for about two weeks after The Rain, which is what the day of meteors had
become known as on the Framework, but then came the horrible hypercanes, which as the guy on The
Weather Channel explained were super-duper hurricanes. The country-sized storms were spawned off