My Apocalypse

My Apocalypse, edited by Scott Adkins. Adkins asks seventeen writers to tell us how they want the world to end. The anthology is an exploration of apocalyptic fascinations from poets, fiction writers, journalists, playwrights, and screenwriters. (Retails for $20.00. ISBN: 978-0-9825041-3-0. Trade paper-back. Published December 21st, 2012. Includes 34 pages of color reproductions of Glen Einbinder s Dream Cards.) From the introduction: It is no easy task to know death, our own death, let alone to know the end of everything we know. I ask myself, if December 21st, 2012 marks the end and I get to decide how it all ends, then what would my apocalypse be? My first instinct is that we all just disappear, the whole kit and caboodle. That's the easy choice because we end hunger, poverty, greed, materialism, global warming, persecution, war, torture--like a satisfying xxxx going down the toilet. In this version a volcano erupts out of the trunk of my car while I race to Washington DC with a stray dog in the passenger seat to tell the President of the United States how to save the world. But, I don't make it, I get a flat tire, the lava consumes me, the moon falls to earth, and then phhhpt. That's it. Easy way out. Not my way. ...