TWENTY YEARS AFTER the end of air travel, the caravans of the Traveling Symphony moved slowly under a white-hot sky.
Some people had mixed feelings about this - they'd obviously been abandoned here, everyone was hungry and 911 wasn't even operational; on the other hand, no one wants to be a thief - but then a busine...
She was unmoored and her memories were eroding in the sunlight,
She wants to believe they’re lying in moonlight, but she knows the light through the window is probably mostly electric.
She stopped for a decaf latte at a Starbucks and was struck by the barista’s brilliant green hair. Your hair’s beautiful, she said, and the barista smiled.
She started to explain her project to him again but the words stopped in her throat. 'You don't have to understand it,' she said. 'It's mine.
She is beautiful in a way that makes people forget what they were going to say when they look at her.
Outside the world was ending and snow continued to fall.
No,' Dahlia said, 'because I think people like him think work is supposed to be drudgery punctuated by very occasional moments of happiness, but when I say happiness, I mostly mean distraction. You kn...
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status...
It’s cold in Toronto but I like where I’m living.
It occurred to Clark that he should call someone, actually everyone, that he should call everyone he’d ever loved and talk to them and tell them all the things that mattered, but it was apparently alr...
But she knows she’ll never belong here no matter how hard she tries. These are not her people. She is marooned on a strange planet.
They wanted to expand the territory, so that spring they followed the Maumee River down past the ruins of Toledo, and then the Auglaize River into Ohio, and they eventually walked into the town where...
There’d been an epidemic, the man had told him. Thirty people had died incandescent with fever, including the mayor. After this, a change in management, but the tuba’s acquaintance had declined to ela...
The lit end flares in the darkness when she inhales. She likes Hollywood best at night, in the quiet, when it’s all dark leaves and shadows and night-blooming flowers, the edges softened, gently lit s...
The claustrophobia of the forest. The first few trees visible before her, monochrome contrasts of black shadow and white moonlight, and beyond that an entire continent, wilderness uninterrupted from o...
The Wendy’s was a low square building with the look of having been slapped together from a kit in an architecturally careless era,
The Georgia Flu was so efficient that there was almost no one left.
Station Eleven is the size of Earth’s moon and was designed to resemble a planet, but it’s a planet that can chart a course through galaxies and requires no sun. The station’s artificial sky was damag...