“She dreamed about her brother. In her dream he had grown up. He had a family. Two little girls and Sadie—not Plath, Sadie—was coming over for dinner, and it was all strangely televisionish, not real. The girls were perfectly pretty. Eating a cereal in a bright box: Kellogg’s Nanobots. At first that didn’t seem strange to dream-Sadie as she walked through the scene. The kitchen was middle American, with a refrigerator covered in children’s drawings and pictures and report cards with Straight A’s...! Yay! written in red pen. It was nothing like the home Stone would probably have had. In the dream he had a more prosaic life than he’d have had if he had lived and taken over McLure Industries. The cereal was coming out of the box now, crawling in a swarm toward the little girls’ bowls, refilling as they spooned up the crunchy nuggets. “I didn’t feel a thing,” Stone said. “You must have been afraid,” dream-Sadie argued. And behind him, back where Stone couldn’t see but Sadie could, the nanobots were crawling up over the little girls’ white arms and over their colorful dresses and up their necks and all the while the girls smiled.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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