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"Not at all It’ll do both of us soes can run off a little of their excess energy" Stacy leaned up against Michael, watching as Maize and Phillip chased each other, one laughing, the other with tail wagging madly "Maybe they can wear each other out"

Michael snorted "That’ll be the day I think that boy is powered by plutoniuo and marry a scientist I could have held out for a rock star, but no, I wanted the gla a professor’s wife"

This tis every day when I remember that you could have held out for a rock star"

Stacy s around at the crowd, the sky, the water Phillip was laughing, his sound blending with the cries of seagulls and the barking of overexcited dogs to forreat noise that was the voice of hu so beautiful in her life

"I think we should all be counting our blessings every day," she said finally "Life doesn’t get any better than this"

"Life can always get better" Michael kissed her one ainst her cheek "Just you wait and see This ti back on this su ‘Oh, you had no idea; just you wait and see’"

"I hope you’re right," said Stacy, and kissed him back

The annual Fourth of July laser show at the Berkeley Marina was a huge success this year, drawing record crowds The laser shohich replaced the traditional firework displays as of 2012, has become a showpiece of the year’s calendar, and this year was no different With designs programmed by the UC Berkeley Computer Science Department…

July 7, 2014: Manhattan, New York

In the month since his report on the so-called Kellis cure had first appeared, Robert Stalnaker had received a level of attention and adulation--and yes, vitriol and hatred--that he had previously only drea with people both applauding and conde his decision to reveal Dr Alexander Kellis’s scientific violation of the American public Was he the one who told the Mayday Ar thousands of dollars of da millions of dollars of research into the open air? No, he was not He was si his job and reporting the news

The fact that he had essentially fabricated the story had stopped bothering him after the third interview request he received By the Monday following the Fourth of July, he would have been honestly shocked if someone had asked him about the truth behind his lies As far as he was concerned, he’d been telling the truth Maybe it wasn’t the truth that Dr Kellis had intended, but it was the one he’d created All Stalnaker did was report it to the world

Best of all, he hadn’t seen anyone sneezing or coughing in al up in that lab of his, it did what it was supposed to do Throw out the Kleenex and cancel that order for chicken soup, can I hear an aation?

"A open the door to his paper’s New York office A cool blast of cli away the stickiness of the New York su shut behind him, and waited for the applause that inevitably followed his arrival He was, after all, the one who had single-handedly increased circulation almost fifteen percent in under a week

The applause didn’t come Instead, an uneasy silence fell as people stopped their work and turned to stare Be down on hi between his lips as he frantically chewed it into splinters The toothpicks had been intended as an aid when he’d quit sone away

"Stalnaker!" he growled, shoving the toothpick off to one side of his mouth as he demanded, "Where the hell have you been? Don’t you check your e- breakfast," said Stalnaker, taken aback by his editor’s tone Don never talked to him like that Harshly, sure, and so to be articulated; never like he was a puppy who’d made a mess on the carpet "Why? Did I el?"

Don Nutick paused, forcing himself to take a deep, slow breath before he said, "No Youthat the ringleaders of the Mayday Army were taken into custody Friday afternoon"

"What?" Stalnaker stared at hiht the guys? How the hell did they e that?"

"One of their own decided to rat theet ahat they’d done" Don shook his head "They’re not releasing the guy’s naet an exclusive intervieith him, why I bet that person could write his or her own ticket Maybe even convince a sy a report that’s getting the paper threatened with a lawsuit"

"Lawsuit?"

"I told you you needed to check your e-mail more"