It was the first and only fight of his childhood, but it had taught him a valuable lesson about human nature, how people were just another species of animal, and like any animal, from the...

I stopped looking at the cars after the first few miles. Once I started to see past the exteriors, I saw what lay inside some of them and felt the urge to sprint to the...

In her mind’s eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness,...

When I wasn’t in the barn garden, helping out, sorting seeds or checking hoses I’d spend time alone, usually in the bathroom adjacent to Joel’s room, staring into the shattered mirror as my hand gently...

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?”Morgan sighed again. “The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out.” She shrugged. “I thought I’d be safe...

you’re all a bunch of sheep!” and even if they did say anything, I doubt anyone would listen… they’re all too obsessed and attached to their cellular phones and overly big televisions and whatever other...

After everything that’s happened, her fear of requesting a prescription or of asking Trevor about his mother baffles her. Shouldn’t life-altering events make you less afraid of the little stuff? But it’s the little stuff...

And that date, too, is far off?”Far off; when it comes, think your end in this world is at hand!”How and what is the end? Look east, west, south and north.”In the north, where you...

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to spanWhen it gathers to egg once more

I used to be Autumn Winters, daughter of an actress and an architect. I had been one of three living in this home, but now I was just Autumn Winters, and I was alone.

I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and it is there that my stomach leaps into my throat. Squatting just shy...

A giant grin, accompanied by a slight chuckle, had been the grand finale to any of his most successful jokes, while the less impressive resulted in a raise of both his brows, which he followed...

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.

What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?” Our nearest stellar neighbor, as we have seen, is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. I had imagined that if there were an explosion there we...

Most folks don’t have but a few days to a week’s worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they’ll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in...

I’ll remember your apocalypse if you’ll remember mineIt will be a holiday of the senses

Oh, really? Do you wake up heaving from bloody dreams thatpromise destruction like some crazy street guy forecasting theApocalypse? Did you slam a door in your dad’s face hours before he died?Does everyone, cops included,...

I can’t believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but...

S” stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.

Songs remain. They last…A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That’s the power of songs.

How would you rather die?” she snapped. “Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

Dan, I’m not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

The only easy day was yesterday!

You’re going to wake up one day, and you’re gonna realize he’s moved on. He’ll quit trying to win you back. And you’ll regret it. And if there’s anything The Plague taught me, it’s that...

Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.

Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.

O furie de-a mea v-ar îngropa pe toţi în balele nimicului, un singur suflu de-al meu v-ar doborî în esenţa vidului, un pumn de-al meu v-ar descompune în mii şi mii de particule de lavă…

I’m sure that they’ll be able to realize how wrong it all is… even though the idiots outnumber most people these days, there are still enough intelligent people to fight against it.

Biblical eschatology fundamentally challenges the “official” scientific idea that the universe will end in a violent heat death, and instead that the cosmos will be set free from its decadence. It calls us to consider...

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.

On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review–as he ascends through the stratosphere,...

Is the music broke, Mommy?