Elderly May Crandall reveals to Avery Stafford that she is Rill Foss, one of five siblings stolen in 1939 by the Tennessee Children’s Home Society and adopted out.

Malorie rows blindfolded down a river with two four-year-olds, called Boy and Girl, and reaches a former school for the blind, where survivors live safely because they cannot be driven mad by seeing the creatures.

Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite, brings the Polish “Rabbits,” women used for medical experiments at Ravensbrück, to the United States for treatment, including Kasia Kuzmerick.

Years after the Glanton gang of scalp hunters is destroyed, the kid, now called the man, meets the monstrous Judge Holden in a Texas saloon in 1878.

Lale Sokolov, the prisoner forced to tattoo numbers on fellow inmates at Auschwitz-Birkenau, survives the war, but he and his love Gita are separated in the chaos at the end.

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.