10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days
ShortStory 2,048 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"There is a future in which a hellgate opens off the coast of California. It happens at midnight on the first day of the new year, which is sooner than anyone expected. The waters rise and we are forced to abandon our home, but one of the neighbors has a spare raft we can borrow until the rescue boats arrive, so there’s that."
Content warnings 4
deathillness-and-pandemicmental-illnessviolence
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