Jake Schmitt looked up, droplets from the cool stream dribbling down his chin, and locked eyes with his best friend, Buddy. The 6-year-old German shorthaired pointer also had water dripping from his ...

I woke to the sound of my own scream. A soviet apartment block had collapsed in front of me, five stories of concrete folding in on itself. In the dream, my ex-girlfriend was inside, gone in an ...