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will be an
explosion. It will cover the entire planet. There will be no
survivors. There will be no escape. We don’t want to drag this
out. We just want a chance for everyone to start over.”
    The man paused and stared directly into the camera.
He wore a smile of immense satisfaction and terrifying confidence. It was
easy to see that, to him, this was not a joke. “I’m telling you this
because we can’t be stopped. You deserve to know of the great day
awaiting us. Enjoy your last day. Tomorrow we start anew.”
The man paused and timidly lowered his eyes. “I will see you again,
Sara.”
    He disappeared and Stephen’s speech seamlessly came back on
the television. “…I hope we can work together to solve this problem…”
    Campbell and Al continued watching the speech.
Campbell was dumbfounded. He stared through the screen. His mind
was too busy racing for words to be spoken.
    Later, Stephen sat in a limo with Campbell. They
stared at each other as they whizzed through traffic. Not only had they
failed to get their message across, but now someone was threatening to blow up
the world. Thoughts zipped through Stephen’s mind. Was it even
possible to blow up the world? How could that man have nuclear
weapons? The afternoon was a colossal failure. Stephen’s meeting
with the president had been postponed indefinitely. Not surprisingly, a
nuclear threat was more of a pressing issue than meeting with Stephen to
discuss the ILD and mass suicides.
    Stephen had seen that man before. He couldn’t figure
out where or how he’d seen him, but he had the strongest feeling that he knew
him from somewhere. Maybe it was the deep scar over his eye that threw
Stephen off. Either way, he could swear he was familiar.
    He didn’t know it, but his inkling was right.

6
    Stephen and Campbell entered Stephen’s hotel room where
Miles anxiously waited. Stephen picked him up and Miles licked his face
in return. Stephen paced to the bed and sat. Campbell stood with
his hands on his hip and stared at the ground. There was silence between
them. For most of the ride over there had been silence. With a
supposed end of the world looming, there was too much deep thinking for any
words to possibly keep up with. Stephen looked at Miles, whose tail
viciously wagged. How nice it must be to be him. Not a care in the
world. He had no idea of the troubles plaguing dogs’ best friend.
It was too bad traditional reincarnation didn’t exist. If it did, Stephen
would come back as a dog. Unfortunately, he’d have to settle for living
his life all over again. And again. And again. Stephen tried
not to think of it. What a prison for humanity to have to live every pain
and every regret over again. An infinite amount of the same mistakes;
this was the fate of man. There were plenty of things Stephen would
change if he could. Discovering the ILD would probably be one of
them. If the wheel was man’s best discovery, the ILD was probably the
worst. 1.5 billion people have killed themselves since and most of them
did it for a chance to start over. The worst part, Stephen thought, was
these people would be doomed to kill themselves again in the same fashion at
their next go-round. At least it wasn’t as bad as people who lived truly
terrible lives. People who were tortured or killed in horrendous ways
would be forced to live through it an infinite amount of times. It was a
fate Stephen was glad he would not have to face. There were plenty of
things Stephen would change in his life, but one stood above the rest.
    “Lisa Binsby!”
    Campbell was excited to see her. The
crowd was excited to see her. Stephen’s jaw dropped. He didn’t
think he’d ever see her again. Lisa and Paul Higgins kissed. His
tongue found its way into her mouth; a disgusting sight for Stephen to
endure. Stephen held his pool stick. One ball remained on the
table. There was $2,000 riding on the game. More importantly, there
was a big ego to crush. Paul Higgins glared at Stephen