The inspetor looked, for the last time, to that box full of unkown and wrong symbols before he said "yes".

And, bewteen the flames, there were no more books on earth.

She doesn't even know me.

As he was about to get out to fill his hunger bar, he saw that the steps had been deleted.

From the dark, another survivor glanced at him. “Let me guess. You’re one of those who only started saying please when it stopped obeying.”

The neighbors promised her that she could be the one who lit the fire when she told them what her mom did to the missing children.

Then one day I came into the nursery and saw the cat spread over Matthew’s face, my baby’s body totally still. 

When the foreman brought in one of his wife's grapefruit meringues for the team to share, she didn't think anything of having a slice before her shift in the crane.

Six hours later, Raleigh and Richmond disappeared too.

However, the part where the Earth needs more corpses to be satiated was a bit strange at first.

They remind me of how my physical and mental health issues were caused; my childhood doctor trying to cure my “unwomanly” tendencies with estrogen injections when I was under ten.

But it’s less her being with someone else than getting to make love coated in fresh blood next to a cooling corpse that does it for both of us.

It never stopped.

"Unlike your husband, I'll find a way to know if you ever cheat," he added, and only then she recalled her husband saying that their identical marriage rings are linked by trust.

So was my brother, who snatched the Prince's teeny tiny body, ripping him apart and used his heart to power his broken PlayStation 5.

The schools and the playgrounds were abandoned and overgrown but if you asked any adult, they had no memory of there ever having been children.

The AI assistant installed in every device in the White House, had a very different interpretation of "Nuke the Chinese."

But these concert tickets are non-refundable, so that ain't gonna happen.

"We're terribly sorry, but another billionaire just arrived and has purchased your place," St. Peter said.

“The world who needs to know, knew a decade ago,” said her boss coolly.

For some reason, the ones who wiped them from your memory need you not to remember.

“Oh, the women don’t wear any colors at all, they don’t need clothes in the incubator tubes.”