Time had been reset by catastrophe.
Dr. Eleven, Vol. 1, No. 1: Station Eleven
Do you remember when we were young and gorgeous?
Tattooed on Kirsten’s arm, Survival is insufficient, is from Star Trek: Voyager, episode 122, which aired for the first time in September 1999 and was written by Ronald D. Moore.
Adulthood’s full of ghosts. I’m sorry, I’m not sure I quite— I’m talking about these people who’ve ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? T...
The painted forest collapsed into folds and fell soundlessly to the pavement.
It was beginning to dawn on her that she had traveled so long, so perfectly, that it was difficult to conceive of another kind of life. It was difficult to imagine stopping, but stopping as imminent.
I have walked all my life through this tarnished world.
An incomplete list:No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played out under floodlights. No more porch lights with moths fluttering on summer nights. No...
The bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city.
They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin. Miranda
The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.
That kind of insanity’s contagious,
I’ve heard of a dozen prophets over the years. It’s not an uncommon occupation.
But what made It bearable were the friendships, of course, the camaraderie and the music and the Shakespeare, the moments of transcendent beauty and joy when it didn't matter who'd used the last of th...
Adulthood's full of ghosts. . . . I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected...
The more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
Standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who w...
She’s come to understand that clothes are armor
WHAT WAS LOST IN THE COLLAPSE: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. Twilight in the altered world, a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a parking lot in the mys...