Awakening in California: A Short Story

It was Christmas Eve.

A week earlier, Rip awoke from a four-year coma. Doctors called it a miracle. Last thing he could remember, he was driving south on I-5. It was Dec. 31, 2019. It was pouring rain. KNX was reporting about an outbreak of a mysterious respiratory virus in Wuhan, China. And then bam!—an SUV plowed into him.