- [introduction]
- John Newland: Have you ever been certain your telephone would ring in the next ten seconds? Or have you ever walked down a strange street and had the feeling that you knew what lay beyond the unturned corner? Yes? Then you've had a brief encounter with the world of the unknown. You are ready for the actual human experience that follows.
- John Newland: Emmy Horvath, age 12. Farm girl. Helping her mother with the chores. How perfectly normal. Certainly a most unlikely channel for the supernormal, the psychic, isn't she? But don't you believe it.
- [afterword]
- John Newland: Scared? Of what? Of a strange gift that was given for just a little while? Of a gift that saved the lives of two children. A man frightened of a miracle. How much more frightening, how really terrifying, if there were no miracles.