Yesterday's Gone: Season Three (THE POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIAL THRILLER)

same age as he did in this year’s school picture, but Mom and Dad and Anna were standing behind him, instead of being dead. Luca started to cry, remembering the accident.
    Mom told him to buckle his safety belt but he didn’t want to. He kept taking it on and off and on and off. It was off when the car swerved off the road and rolled over and over. Luca was thrown from the car, through the front window, screaming. He might have been out for a minute, maybe more. But when he went back for his mom and dad and Anna, the whole car got swallowed by fire.
    Luca looked at his sister, smiling in the photo. It had been forever since he remembered her smiling. And suddenly he missed Anna the most. He left the sleeping Luca alone, then went into Anna’s bedroom, crying because she was actually there.
    Luca crept to her bedside, then reached out to touch her hair. Her eyes shot open and a surprised half-smile appeared on her face.
    “Luca?”
    Before he could answer, Luca was gone.
    A second later Luca found himself standing in the middle of his dad’s bedroom. His dad had been reading his iPad, the soft blue light illuminating his face in the otherwise dark room.
    The iPad fell from his dad’s hands as his father leapt from the bed. “Oh my God, Luca!” he yelled. “How in the world did you do that?”
    That’s when Luca realized it hadn’t been a dream. He’d gone to another world.

TO BE CONTINUED…

    In Yesterday’s Gone: Episode 14
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::EPISODE 14::
    (SECOND EPISODE OF SEASON THREE)
    “We Are Accidents Waiting To Happen”

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Author’s Note:

    Hi, fellow Goner.
    When we started Yesterday’s Gone last summer, we knew that we’d have some ‘splainin’ to do when we finally pulled the curtain back to show you what happened right before The Event of October 15.
    Sean and I (Dave) have spent many hundreds of hours hammering out this storyline, and believe this season will be one of the most powerful stories we’ve written together. The challenge of presenting a complex narrative is to tell it without insulting the reader with constant reminders of what they know, while making it so people who have gone weeks or months between episodes can easily recall the story to that point.
    It’s a fine line to balance.
    Given the nature of this story, and the multiple timelines and alternate Earth characters, we wanted to take a moment, offer a recap, and address some of our most frequently asked reader questions regarding timelines and alternate characters and worlds.
    There are NO SPOILERS below, provided you’ve read up to Episode 13 (the book before this one).
    Yesterday’s Gone began with the premise that nearly everyone on Earth vanished on October 15, except for the main characters you first met in this story. As was revealed (to some of the characters) in Season Two, it wasn’t Earth’s population that vanished — it was them.
    During the mysterious “Event” of October 15, 2011, they were somehow brought to an alternate Earth, which we refer to as “Other Earth,” where all of this story has taken place to date (unless we label a place “our Earth”).
    Along with the Other Earth, there are Other versions of a few of the characters, including (but not necessarily limited to) Ed, Boricio, Luca, and Will. These characters have similar, though slightly different lives.

    A FEW DIFFERENCES
    Other Ed Keenan is a scientist at Black Island Research Facility while our Ed is a black ops sort of agent whose own people turned on him following events hinted at but not explored in the story.
    Other Will Bishop is a lead consultant at Black Island Research Facility thanks to an expedition years ago where he and others uncovered something mysterious. On our Earth, Will didn’t experiment with what they found. On Other Earth, they did. Other Earth also adopted the Boricio of his world, which resulted in Other Boricio growing into a somewhat normal person rather than take the path of a serial killer like the Boricio you know and love to hate. Other Will also adopted that world’s Luca through circumstances explained in this episode.
    Our Will, however, never met, nor adopted Luca or Boricio, though he was brought to our Luca through mysterious circumstances involving