The Locked Door
an excerpt

I have tried to imagine the day I died in that other world almost ten years ago. Certain details stand out, simply because it was an especially aggravating day. The rest is easy to fill in with all the mundane details of college dorm life. Looking back, it is almost incomprehensible to me that my life, the lives of my children, and even the fate of the United States all depended on one single locked door.