Under the Dome

On a typical, beautiful autumn day, the town of Chester's Mills, Maine, was suddenly cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible force barrier. Planes crashed into the dome and plummeted from the sky, burning; a gardener's arm was severed by the force field; people who had gone to a nearby town on business could not return to their loved ones; cars exploded upon colliding with the dome. No one understood what the barrier was, where it came from, or if it would disappear.