“What the hell?  It’s ash.  Walter, they’ve all turned to ash!  What the hell is happening here, Walt??” – Cynthia Reid, CNN Camera Operator

Matt Kirk was staring into his coffee cup.  Not his mug, no, but a coffee cup, as in one of those Styrofoam disposable ones that news rooms all over the world still used despite the clamoring of the general public to do away with anything that wouldn’t biodegrade in a world that was infinitely more green than when he’d been a young man.  The coffee, now cold, was a burnt blend of tar, non-dairy likely cancer causing creamer, and some sugar substitute that hadn’t been sold on store shelves at the local grocery in at least five years.  That was probably going to give him c...

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