We can’t spend our lives wondering, ‘what if?’ We must simply make the best of what we have. -Lady Mary Wynne-Jones

Of course. I died today, and now I’m going to fight aliens with a light saber. Maybe after that we can look for mermaids. Or unicorns.””No,” he says. “Just aliens.”Was that the barest hint of...

This isn’t a game,” he repeats. It’s real. What you do here determines your survival. He pauses. “And the survival of every other person on this planet.I laugh.He doesn’t. And that tells me he’s either...