The Stranger 08/14/24 A gasp seized in Jacob’s throat, sending him lurching up and out of the weight of the ruins burying his body. He panicked as his breath caught up to his starved lungs and he clutched at anything and everything around him in a frightened rush of confusion and terror. “Let go of me!” He felt two hands connect with his shoulder as the woman who had rescued him shoved him away angrily, stumbling as she emerged from the pile of wreckage that engulfe
