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The mushroom cloud descended from the heavens as its fiery-red plumes filled the TV screen.

No one saw this coming.

Gideon Cole, topaz brown eyes wide in shock, stood his full six feet height. He gaped just like everybody else in the store.

Just minutes ago, he’d decided to take a casual stroll across the street from his suburban home to the tiny grocery store so he could buy a snack. He’d finished a take-home project early that morning and planned to spend the rest of the day binging on Netflix.

Every one was meandering through the short aisles, snatching bags of chips or boxes of ramen noodles—the casual American way.

No one had the slightest idea what was about to flash across the Breaking News screen on the TVs overhead.

Now, no one moved, it was as if the Universe had hit the pause button on the world.

The anchorman muttered into his mike, his words coming out strained—he too was obviously shocked and reading the words from his teleprompter was a struggle.

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