Sleepers

The day started like any typical Thursday, morning traffic, and the news until 7:01 a.m., when people across the world began to collapse starting in Boston. It happens at the same time for the next seventeen hours. The only thing unusual about the day is the electromagnetic storm caused by the sun, which happened last in 1869. Satellite and communications are out and thirty-four million people in the United States (eleven percent of the population) have fallen into a coma unlike any that ne...