Introduction
Rachel was a young woman who worked in a firm called Computer Astrology. One day she had an idea, she wanted to put an advertisement in the neswpaper about palmistry, on Friday. Her boss, Mervyn Astra, agreed whit the idea.
Story
On Friday morning Rachel got up early. She was waiting for the newspaper. When it arrived, she hurried to the table, and opened it. There it was the advertisement about palmistry!
A week later they had thousands of photographs of hands to do palmistry, the idea was very successful. Sometime after, she started being embarrassed by her job. One day, Rachel was at a party and she started talking with a woman who used to read people's hands. After the conversation she was thinking that, maybe, palmistry was all nonsense.
The next day Rachel was in her office and she called Mark, (he worked with Marvyn Astra her boss, on the palmistry program) she asked him if they could do a statistical analysis of all the palmistry photographs. He accepted and she said that she wanted to do it because she thought that, maybe, they could find something about the future. 
A few days later, Mark walked into Rachel's office and said that he had news, they received a lot of photographs from Chatford, about 2000, they discovered that 75% of the photographs had got short life lines too, after that, she asked him how short were the life lines in Chatford, he looked at her hand and said: "Er... they were about the same."
After, Rachel went to speak with Mervyn, he wasn't very happy. They had a discussion and she left her job, all because he didn't wanted to lend her a computer.
Rachel left Computer Astrology on March nineteen. She found another job, as a reporter for the Daily Echo, a newspaper in London. She was talking with her new boss when he said to her to go to Chatford to write a story about life lines. She accepted and went away the next week.
When she arrived in Chatford she found Mervyn in the hotel, very angry.On the morning of September twenty-one, Mark woke early because he had bad dreams all night about Rachel and the computer printout. He got the newspaper and looked in the front page, on it was: NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN CHATFORD - THOUSANDS DEAD. (...) Our reported, Rachel Grant, was in the town when the power station exploded. Mark started crying, he took out the box of computer printouts and burned them. He never told anybody about the life lines.
