A wonder working power in the precious...

...credible as they seem are not the results of mass stereo...

You may wish to adjust the dial.

You're currently tuned to the wrong station. I'm April 1996.

Internal Memo. Bicker Bomstead Incorporated. Acquisitions.

Need to ask you about something in the books. Shell company we bought last year for spare parts.

Says in the Holdings Info it has properties in in Cal-born British Columbia, but I'm not seeing

that on any maps. Haven't gotten anywhere calling the provincial registry either. Typo, or am I missing

something?

1983. The only remaining first-hand account of the Cal-Born incident, a debrief of one of its survivors,

identified only as G.L. It was a normal morning. I'd just seen Mary at the fruit market. We were

catching up. I was excited to tell her that Juliet was walking now, and that Susan and Mark were

going to come up and bring her for a visit next now, and that Susan and Mark were going to come

up and bring her for a visit next weekend. After that, I started walking down Main Street.

I had to drop by the bakery and do a few other errands. It was a bit past ten when it happened,

I think. It's hard to remember exactly. I'm not sure whether I felt it or heard it first,

maybe both at the same time.

There was this huge booming sound that must have come from the west out over the water.

It started off quiet, but got very loud, very quickly. Everything was shaking. Then I felt this kind of wave of air and sound.

It knocked me down, and when I got up there was broken glass everywhere.

My ears were ringing, but I thought I heard car alarms going off and people yelling.

And then I saw it, this bright light, way out on the horizon, burning white with streaks of sparkling orange-red and purple-green.

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