For seemingly no reason and with no advance warning, the world comes to a stop for everyone except one man, who goes on a mission to uncover the mystery. That much is the premise of Pause, a new ...

Pause is the twelfth story to be published in John Carpenter's anthology series Tales of Science Fiction.

Henry Jacobs is young and careless as he spends a night on the town in New York City. He went out for drinks, now a little tipsy or drunk depending on preference, which he debates over the phone ...