So I took a deep breath, let it out and then began to tell him all about my friend Chris and how the movie had got me thinking about how Chris acts. I even told him about the time in the park when I’d seen Chris and he’d run away. We talked a long time about Chris and by the time I fell asleep I had become convinced that Chris was a member of the lingering dead.
The following morning the three of us woke up to a tremendous shock. During the night an ice storm had come through and encased the world in a half-inch or more of ice. What was worse was that Mom and John called around eight in the morning to say, that they were stranded inside their motel room too.