Is the music broke, Mommy?

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else’s hands, ready to be crushed at any...

The temperature of my blood dropped several degrees, and I took a step back. My heart quickened. “Storm?” I prompted, looking at the boxes on the dock labeled “non-perishable.

I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help...

You’re the military. You’re in charge. Why would I be scared?

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

And on the eighth day, Satan laughed.

Thoughts have power, influencing humanity’s collective path. The difference between Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler lies, ultimately, in how they thought. A thought can change the world for the better—or damn it forever.

It must be one of life’s little jokes… how we take everything, even life itself, for granted. We waste our childhoods wishing for what we don’t have, longing for the future, dreaming of ways to...

Maybe it’s ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you’re alive for a while, and then you realize you’re going to die, and that’s such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers...

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

It wasn’t aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.Seems more logical than undergoing all kinds of hardships only to die eventually anyway (through bites/malnutrition/or terminally chapped...

Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I’m still alive.

Given the chance, would I go back? Back to the time when my parents were alive? When my biggest problem was a past-due paper? When I didn’t need to know how to take care of...

Kittridge closed his eyes. So, the end. It would happen instantaneously, a painless departure, quicker than thought. he felt the presence of his body one last time: the taste of air in his lungs, the...

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity;...

The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of...

The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.

To stop. To cease, just for a moment. To turn your back on the world, to close your eyes – to see the nothing that is not rather than the nothing that is everywhere around...

Isn’t it strange that all life can pretty much end, but the universe goes on as it is? No one else exists, but the moon keeps shining and the stars keep falling.

I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People...

He first noticed it on the plane ride. There was an odor about her and it was becoming more pronounced with each passing hour. It was like the smell of rotting meat.

That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.People would much rather say, ‘Get in my...

Things are different here. There will be rules and regulations that you are not used to. You will have to follow them. All of them.

Alex: “You asked earlier why us humans fear death. I suppose it is the unknown – not knowing what awaits on the other side. But now I know, and I still fear it.”The Darkness: “?”Alex:...

If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.

I wouldn’t mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we’d all be in the same boat and life wouldn’t be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like....

The Testimony of the Suns”)

You think you’re prepared. You think you’ve done everything you’re supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then—whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something...

At the round earth’s imagined corners blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls, and to your scattered bodies go ;All whom the flood did, and fire shall o’erthrow,All whom war, dea[r]th,...

…while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked...

When I cry – when I let myself cry – that’s who I cry for. I don’t cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that’s gone.And I wonder what that Cassie would think of...

Some of the men are zombies.

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I think there comes a time in almost any experimentation or idea, where you have...

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

He pulled me back to him, stroking my hair as if to calm me. Tears sprang to my eyes and melted into the water around me. I didn’t want to die. But people died every...

Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to reveal the errors in our beliefs.

We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with science and religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And, for...

What say you, image bearer? Have you come to save us?

People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really improved.

It’s one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don’t stand out so much.

This guy is funny. But is he safe? And how much is that worth when the world itself has ceased to exist?

You can’t take highways during the apocalypse, because they’ll be packed with panicky people.

He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he...

Do you?

She’d been caught up in that image, that flash, man’s nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after.

Sleep!May be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things never changed, the apocalypse never happened, and everything’s fine, normal, at home.Or may be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things have...