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A SLIME MONSTER IN HIS OWN WRITE.
It was the end of the world.
Flying saucers crashed into the Washington Monument. Skyscrapers caught fire.
Jumbo jets crash-landed in Peru. An immense ocean liner, quite possibly the Titanic, hit an iceberg and sank majestically. Rome burned while Nero fiddled. It was terrible.
And Roger was helpless to stop it.
After that, of course, it got worse.
Newspaper headlines spun toward him, freezing in place with headlines like:
“DELORES LOST FOREVER!”
“DOCTOR DREAD TRIUMPHANT!”
And it didn’t stop there. If that had been the extent of things, Roger still might have been able to stand it. After all, he had become inured to hardship and surprise through a life working in public relations. But no!
