“Time Out Of Joint” by Philip K. Dick (1959)

“From the cold-storage locker at the rear of the store, Victor Nielson wheeled a cart of winter potatoes to the vegetable section of the produce department.”

Have you ever felt like you’re being watched? Doesn’t everyone’s ego, once in a while, make them worry that everything around them isn’t real, and that for some reason you can’t begin to fathom, you’re not in on the joke? What is that were really the case?

It’s 1959 and Ragle Gumm is locally famous because he makes his living by entering a ...