— I just turned away for a second to light a cigarette. A strong wind was blowing. And suddenly I heard a woman scream—Gavin slowly sat up on the couch, rubbing his face, as if he wanted to wake up and find himself in his bed, and everything that happened to him would be just a terrible nightmare. — I rushed to where this creature was walking just a minute ago, but the water in the nearest sagebrush was calm. No one was floundering.
The next story is titled "The Observer." Description: He was trapped in a goddamned Groundhog Day, only instead of a fluffy rodent, he was surrounded by stiff, bloated corpses and a total absence of change. Just another dump, which Richard filed away in his archive exactly as that—"another one."