Ethan was a skeptic and he wondered why he

Ethan was a skeptic and he wondered why he let Ettinger convince him to be cryopreserved upon his legal death. Maybe he wanted to thwart the cancer, or maybe it was just curiosity

about a future life in a mysterious future civilization. Either way, he knew he would be saying goodbye to everyone he loved, choosing the metallic cryo-sleep over an untimely end

. He closed the hatch and felt the cold surround him. A moment later, he awakened as the hatch slid open again. He stepped out and looked around. How much time had passed?

The sun descended over the horizon and as darkness enveloped the world, menacing shadows appeared where benign objects had previously lay. Out of the corner of his eye a movement

shifted in the dark. Romney said, "Satan, is that you?" But it was Anne coming back from the car, "Why did you call out for Satan?" Romney said, "What?"

Anne knew he was stalling. He always asked "what?" when he heard her but just didn't have a good answer. Romney crawled out of the dark closet then and admitted what he had done.

The TwinkieCream started to work it's magic on the guy. These were no ordinary 7 cases of heavenly sugary spongecakes that he wolfed down, these cases from Discount Charlie's.

Most people dismissed Discount Charlie's, but every student from Slippery Rock University knew it was the only place in town to get a full-body tingle from a hand

that had been approved by the estate of Msgr. Vincent Price. Well, the product didn't produce much of a tingle, but if you squeezed it, you might very well say "Jambalaya!"