Book excerpt: It was a day like any other after the world ends, bury your wife, make a lot of unanswered calls and make a list for getting out of town before the weather turns. Then you realize you're not alone. Alex found Mattie standing by his wife's grave her only possession an empty valise. The valise is more than it seems and in fact so is Mattie. Keywords: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, What If