The oven's busted. Let it cool down, and then we'll give the carcass a decent burial in the trash." Oh, that's just fabulous," Kate said, throwing her...hands up. "What am I going to make for Thanksgiving with a broken oven?" Something you can cook on the top burners, probably."The bird took a while to cool down to non-nuclear temperatures, and when Kate retrieved the turkey from the oven cavity with a moan, it had the texture and appearance of a charcoal briquette. Will opened the kitchen window. She has had it in for me since the day Julie took me home to meet her parents. It never made any sense to me. I'm a decent looking guy, I have a good job and I worship the ground that Julie walks on. What more could a mother want for her daughter? A lot more apparently, at least as far as Julie's mother was concerned.She was against me from the start and I hadn't even gotten out of the driveway following that first visit when she was on Julie about how unsuitable I was and that Julie should. Her hands were slipped between my arms and she was pressed close to my body. It had caught me off guard and was a bit jumpy as I looked out the window to see my wife and Jeff still talking at the table. Sara giggled in my ear and whispered that she was watching me tonight. I was at a loss of words and just stood there frozen in time. Sara pulled her arms back and skipped off to the wash room. I was still in shock and disbelief when she returned to the itched. This time I didn’t turn to see her. It was said to be about land but it was racial. It soon spread to all the world in a full and true world war. I guess luckily, standard nuclear bombs had been eliminated many years before. The new bombs were neutron bombs that killed people but did not destroy property or technology or cause a kind of radiation that lingered and caused harm to those who were not killed. In the three years of the war about 80% of all the men and about 55% of all the women, worldwide, were killed. Finally.