Jean Valjean, having saved Marius at the barricade and given Cosette her happiness, is shut out by Marius, who wrongly believes Valjean is a criminal.

In the final story, “The Evitable Conflict,” robopsychologist Susan Calvin realizes that the giant Machines now running Earth’s economy are deliberately making small errors to steer humanity away from harm.

Esperanza Ortega, once a wealthy girl in Mexico, has grown up working in California farm camps during the Great Depression.

Dan Torrance, now sober and working in a hospice, helps the powerful psychic girl Abra Stone destroy the True Knot, a group of near-immortal beings who feed on the “steam” of children with the shining.

Edward Cullen saves Bella Swan from the vampire tracker James in a ballet studio in Phoenix, sucking James’s venom out of her hand so she stays human.

Sung Jinwoo, now the Shadow Monarch, defeats the Monarchs who planned to destroy humanity, then uses the Cup of Reincarnation to turn back time.

After his toddler Gage is killed by a truck, Louis Creed buries him in the ancient burial ground beyond the pet cemetery, and Gage returns as a murderous creature who kills their elderly neighbour Jud and Louis’s wife Rachel.

Johnny Cade dies from injuries he got rescuing children from a burning building, telling Ponyboy to “stay gold.” Grief-stricken, Dally robs a store and is shot by police, Ponyboy is cleared at a hearing for the killing of Bob, and he begins writing his English assignment, the story readers have just read.

Old Yeller, the loyal stray dog who saved Travis’s family many times, is bitten by a rabid wolf while protecting them.

Paul Sheldon, held captive by his “number one fan” Annie Wilkes, finishes the novel she forced him to write, then sets fire to what she thinks is the manuscript, and in the brutal fight that follows, Annie is fatally injured.