He walked for an hour without finding a real paved road or getting a cell phone signal. There had been turnoffs, but they'd been even...

His fingers sank into something yielding and wet and fibrous, then he crashed into it and lay full length. There was vertigo so intense...

"Hey! Mateo! You gotta check this out! Are you done fixing that thing?" "Yes!" Mateo straightened up from the air conditioner. Avinesh,...