Chapter 1D

In addition, the transition from the current world to the alternate is so simultaneous that there is really nothing one can do to avoid it, if they do happen to cross paths with the portal, and this has often been the cause of several "missing person" mysteries.

I don't quite remember how i got there, only the few seconds before... me in a beat down ford, backfire, train track, booms close, zap, bright light, excrutiating pain... then nothing. I dont know how it happened but i doubt it's relevant importance. The important thing is that I am trapped in a place writing the story with and end that has not happened, even though what seems to be the end of something is often the beginning to something more important. But then endings pass without our knowledge of it.