Mike radioed for an extraction. The helo had initial stabilization issues but soon all was well. He hopped on board, did a little cleanup of a messy “Area of Operations” and embraced the beginning of a new path. Twitch was the first of many temptations he would encounter in this new life. The fool needed a righteous attitude adjustment upside the head. Yet Mike had let him escape in his ridiculous vehicle. To have overcome him was a good sign! It was proof. He was a changed man.
The day Mike would let an unemployable milquetoast mistake “magazine” for “clip” and live; that was Mike’s day zero!
“Everything before was before and everything after will be after.” Thought Mike. He’d forever have a boundary in his life; a boundary of bear spit and ursine armpit. “Nobody”, he thought, “has had such an abrupt and profound transition as I.”
He couldn’t be more wrong. We turn now, in an abrupt and profound transition to the story of Eugene Snodavik. Eugene’s world is about to experience its own day zero; as if upended by the vagaries of a selfish and lazy author who decided “this story isn’t going to sell without more sex”.