People believe the world will go out with a bang. People expect it to be crushed under ever-rising waves, to burn in an inferno of all-encompassing flame, to be torn asunder by the same forces that created it.

No one ever thought it would be as gentle as a door sliding open. No one suspected the beginning of the end would go unnoticed.

Yesterday, Lee led a normal life. Today he is alone, lost and unable to remember anything but the pain.

Henry remembers too much. He holds recollections of what w...