Chapter 1 A New Life "I didn't see it coming. Well. Okay. I did see it coming. I mean it's kind of hard not to see a twelve car subway train barrelling down at you with its high beams locked onto your forehead. Of course, I heard it coming first. Then I looked up and saw it. But it really wasn't enough time to register the fact that it coming at me. Two point five seconds …showed first 75 words of 3840 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3840 total…his lap. Already he could feel the back of his throat itching with no hope that he could ease it. His nose twitched again and again, waiting to sneeze. Hives were beginning to form on his neck. Around the walls of the room reverberated one sound, a sound uttered from the deepest parts of Stuart's soul. A sound that contained all of his grief and resentment at the luck he was suffering just now. "Crap."