As Bill tries to teach Lenore all about his car and how to drive a stick shift, he finds inspiration for a new story in which a woman on a road trip starts receiving threatening calls on her cell phone.

Much to his horror, Cynthia replaces Bill's typewriter with a computer. The new technology in his life leads Bill to write a story about a nineteenth century home that is renovated to bring it up to the twenty-first century. Trouble is, the house doesn't want to be changed.

Cynthia's former boyfriend and his new wife invites the Fearings on a fishing trip, triggering a story in Bill's mind about three salesmen on a hunting trip being stalked by a menacing, unseen force.