As he is getting dressed into his work clothes, he feels a strange aching
sensation in his neck, as if he had pulled a neck muscle, or pinched a nerve. At
the same time, he has a sore throat and his voice is very raspy. He coughs
loudly and thinks nothing of it. All he can think about is the incredibly
lifelike dream that he had, so he decides to call his mother just to say hello
and to take his mind of the odd dream. He picks up the phone and dials in the
ten digit number, he is taken aback by the cold, machine-like voice of a
recording, “The number you have dialed has been disconnected, please hang up,
and try the number again.” He instead tries another number. And another one, and
another one. It’s all the same; they’ve all been disconnected. Finally he
decides that the phone lines must be down, or his apartment was disconnected for
not paying their bills, and he walks out his door.
The moment he closes his apartment door behind him, everything goes silent.
No cars, no people, no birds singing, no anything. “Peculiar,” he thinks to
himself, “people should be out by now, where is everybody?” Bob walks down the
cold, concrete stairs, and everything just gets darker and darker until he
finally reaches the floor of the parking garage. At this level, it is pitch
black and he can’t see anything, but he decides that along with the phone lines,
there must be a power failure. He slowly and cautiously makes his way to where
he parks his car. Suddenly, Bob finds himself on the ground with his briefcase
by his side. He looks behind him and convinces himself he tripped on something
in the dark. He slowly pushes himself up off the ground only to be startled by a
car coming straight at him with its headlights on full beam, he hears the
screeching of breaks, almost like metal on metal. As the car hits him, the
headlights completely engulf him and he feels a moment of disconnectedness and a
feeling of incorporeal like he is no longer in his body. Bob Johnson’s body lay
twitching on the subway tracks as the train came to a screeching halt. He had
been decapitated.
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