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. 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 . . . READ THE REST