I’m an irregular reader of the short fiction on 365 tomorrows. Time is precious and life is short, so a story needs a really compelling theme to draw me in. It feels odd over the Christmas holidays to say that I ‘enjoyed’ this tale by Benson. In 8 paragraphs it steps us through the last 17 seconds of all human life on a planet which might be Earth. And yet… Benson tells his story through the eyes of someone falling in love in the last seconds of their life… both fatalistic and poignant, yet somehow redeemed by that last moment of love – recommended.
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