I had the feeling deep in my gut that there’d been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should have made, that would have made things better. But looking back, I didn’t know what they...

You see? This is why you don’t get mixed up in people’s lives. Because the living are messy and complicated, and things end up going to hell one way or another, every time.

This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.

Our virus is a lot smarter than the ones you see in zombie movies. It doesn’t make its victims stagger around slobbering and moaning so anyone in their right minds would run the other way....