My short story “Wondrous Days” is live at Apex Magazine! The entire issue centers around the 2012 prophecy; my story involves mankind taking care of destroying stuff without any celestial interference whatsoever.

Fair warning: it’s a little on the downbeat side even for me.*

She never said what she had been doing in the forest. She hardly ever talked. I talked; when we met I talked about what had happened, about where my girlfriend was. (“Dead,” she said.)
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The map is stuck with little green pins where explosions are most likely to affect the tectonic plates. There are circles drawn in black and red, in orange and purple and green. The map key names them: twenty years, ten years, five years, one. The black circles are widest, and marked Xibalba.

Sleep tight, kids! Sweet dreams.

* Amy: Bender was a good friend, who-
Bender: LOUDER AND SADDER.