One Second After (After #1)

by William R. Forstchen

“That old Twilight Zone episode,” Kate said. “The one where a bunch of polite middle-class types are having a friendly social, the radio announces nuclear war, and by the end of the half hour they are killing each other trying to get into the shelter one had in his basement.”

‘This is the way the world will end, not with a bang, but a whimper.’ ”