part of me wanted to leave , but part of me was curious . fancy him , sir , doing so , and seeing the place completely deserted . he retrieved what looked like a gun from the boot of the car . the day was different from all the others . maybe more than anything he had ever written . i kept them with my science-fiction magazines , my old microscope and rock collection , and the model of the solar system that i had built in junior high school for science class . 