![]() ![]() There was a run on the bank where Jeremy and I worked, just as there were runs on banks across the world. Then I fall into the pile of bones and rubble, because you really do need a hand to get over it. Jeremy takes my hand to help me over a pile of bones and rubble, but I push it away. Despite their protection, the poisoned, howling wind still cuts into us as it blows across the empty canvas of the blast plain. We crawl out of the bunker and set out for town in our externo-suits. Not her advice to run, run, run as fast as I can, but her advice before that, when she told me never to settle. But I’ve lost a lot of weight, too, which means I’m still out of his league. He’s lost a lot of weight since the reckoning, which I admit makes him significantly more dateable. Jeremy slurps the contents of his can, garbanzo juice dripping down his scraggly beard. She said she would die if Jeremy ever even spoke to her. Jeremy never asks me about me.Īlthough my friends are long dead, their incinerated bone dust blowing in the nuclear wind, I can’t help but picture the looks on their faces. ![]() “I know this is not what either of us wanted, but it may be our fate,” he says. He puts his hand on my shoulder and I wilt away from it. The dandruff snows down upon the industrial spool that we use as a table. But I also see how, as he brings the topic up once again, he is scratching his scalp and then examining his fingernails, just like he used to do in meetings. He holds that, even if our little family ultimately died of radiation poisoning, or starvation, or from the bio-wolves, we could at least say that we tried to save the human race. Since we entered the endless darkness of this new era together, Jeremy has argued that we have a responsibility to procreate. Now that he is, I question the hyperbole. Before all of this started, I said that I wouldn’t date Jeremy if he were the last man on Earth. ![]()
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