Short Story: The Geiger Counter

“We should go into this alley to discuss this.” Epsilon said. “Talking about this out loud isn’t the greatest idea.”

Dante raised a single brow, eyeing them with the utmost suspicion as was possible of a ten year old. “What’s going on?”

“Ender looked at the others coldly. “You might be having some idea of ganging up on me …. But just remember what I do to people who try to hurt me.”

"Whats going on?” Elena asked Liam the whole student body was crowded around some still half asleep and some recording the director’s rage

Smith waiting frantically, “Gosh Isiah you scared me, you’re lucky I covered for you guys”

“ What’s your problem ? You can’t fix yourself on what’s already happened. It’s done. It’s up to us now. “

Another strategy could be offering the new customers who opt for an automatic payment service a fixed price for the first three years (not increased by the annual 3% rate). In this case the LTV net of the acquisition costs would be $1305,5, still higher than the one the company would earn whether the customer opts for a not automatic payment. Moreover, offering 8 years of fixed price ($480) is still more profitable than the case in which the chose a not autopay method, but it is, in my opinion, not recommendable, because of the negative effect that it could have on the customer that chose this option before. Indeed they could decide to resign the contract and try to get a new one with the more convenient conditions. (Table 2)

He wasn’t right to call in an alarm on Montag. Montag was just reading a guest book and wouldn’t talk to Beatty. He tried and tried to talk to her but she wouldn’t talk to him. Mildred said he called in the alarm cause he pretty much felt bad for Montag and wanted to help him get better. I don’t think Mildred should've called an alarm on Montag, because yes he was angry but he would of gotten over it sooner or later. He could've just talked to him about it instead of making a big scene out of it.

“I want this damn mess cleaned up by nightfall! You understand me?” says the LT.

The protagonist of “Grace Period” is probably witness of a nuclear detonation. He saw “a fluctuation of light, a tiny pulse, coming from behind

was a fire, but there was nothing it could since it was just a piece of technology. This reveals

The vehicle forced Darlene’s car off of the road and into the parking lot of the Blue Rock Springs Golf course. Once the pursuer had sufficiently blocked them from any further movement in the car, he stepped out of his vehicle with a lantern in his hand, and his headlights shining blindingly into Darlene and Michael’s faces. "Mike could feel intense heat throughout his body. He had been shot. The bullets were still being fired as Darlene slumped over the steering wheel. She had been hit several times.

“Who’s they?” he wanted to know. “Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?”

Reports have been taken about the effects of the explosion. They have done things that would have been thought impossible.“One older man at about this distance was reportedly blown

The man in “Grace Period” describes feeling “something like the deep throb of a very large dynamo at a great distance” (Baker, 1992, p. 7), then sees “a fluctuation of light [and] a tiny pulse coming from behind the hills” (Baker, 1992, p. 7). This indicates that a nuclear weapon has been detonated at a location somewhere beyond the hills. The deep throb in the earth is the initial shock wave and the fluctuations of light are caused by the fireball rapidly expanding and coming closer. When the man attempts to communicate with a friend and multiple safety enforcements over the phone, he repeatedly receives the busy signal and an automated voice saying that “all circuits are busy”(Baker, 1992, p. 8). After a bomb is detonated, a “severe disruption in communication [occurs]” (Pike, 1998, p. 4) because of multiple “intense electromagnetic [pulses] (EMP)” (Pike, 1998, p. 4). These electromagnetic pulses degrade or destroy the performance of electronic equipment, explaining why the man had difficulty reaching anyone. By quickly glancing out the window, the man observes “a faint shimmering in the air” (Baker, 1992, p. 8) subsequently he notices that is has begun “snowing lightly… outside, on the driveway and lawn and garage” (Baker, 1992, p. 8). What the man believes to be snow, is actually contaminated dirt and debris “[falling] to [the] earth as fallout” (Pike, 1998, p. 3). Using the clues from the story, and comparing it with the scientific evidence and information from the article “Nuclear Weapon Effects”, it is undeniable that there has been a nuclear