Your device has transported you to the streets of Chicago, a US city with a population of 2.7 million. It's the middle of a windy autumn afternoon but, for as far as the eye can see, there is no sign of human life. (If you're from Chicago play along. You owe the rest of us big time for being among the first to legitimize Obama.) Somehow, the entire human population of America's second largest city has been canceled.
Freaked out by the scene in Chicago you fiddle with the settings on your hand-held transporting device. Instantly you find yourself in downtown Houston. Same deal there! No human beings anywhere in sight in a city with nearly as many US Census-counted people as there used to be in Chicago. You do a quick tally and realize that nearly 5,000,000 Americans have gone missing -- spontaneous cancellation, as the device calls the phenomenon . . . READ THE REST
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