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The distant shrieks of children brought her head whipping around, the hairs on the back of her neck standing on end Then the shrieks hter, and she relaxed--not entirely, but enough "Da the children and stopping ure out how towoman who had been Phillip’s babysitter several ti next to a sheet of plyith a staple gun in her hand, shaking it helplessly It wasn’t spewing staples at thethey needed was for anyone to get hit by friendly fire

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July 27, 2014: Denver, Colorado

Denver was burning From where Dr Wells sat, in the front room of his mountain home, it looked like the entire city was on fire That couldn’t possibly be true--Denver was too large to burn that easily--but oh, it looked that way

In the house behind hi, uncertain footsteps as his wife and children made their way down the stairs to the hallway He didn’troom with the rest of the house He was lonely His city was burning, his research was over, and he was lonely Couldn’t aat the end of the world and watching Denver burn?

Daniel Wells lifted his scotch, took a sip, and lowered it again His eyes never left the fla else in the city he called ho co in that Life, as a wise man once said, would always find a way

A low ht outside the front roo," he said, without turning "It’s a beautiful day, don’t you think? All this s sunset…"

Then his wife and children, who had finished amplification some ti A of teeth and the quiet surrender to the dark When he opened his eyes again, he wasn’t Daniel Wells anyratitude, it is very likely that he would have been grateful

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It had taken six of the Valium pills John kept hidden at the back of the medicine cabinet, but Alexander Kellis was finally ready He checked the knot on his rope one ant, but he didn’t deserve elegant, did he? He’d destroyed the world Children would curse his naenerations to coone forever It was over

"I’ll see you soon, sweetheart," he whispered, and stepped off the edge of his desk No one would find his body for weeks If he reani anyone Alexander Kellis never harmed anyone

Not on purpose

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The bedroom walls were painted a cheery shade of rose-petal pink that showed up almost neon in the lens of the web cae where the video was embedded; even the YouTubehad unicorns and rainbows, providing a set of safe search words that were too widespread to be wiped off the internet, no matter howin front of the webcaard, too afraid His once-pristine lab coat was spattered with coffee stains, and he looked like he hadn’t shaved in more than a week