Meg Pokrass is a fiction writer who lives in San Francisco where truth is questionable. Her debut collection of flash fiction, “Damn Sure Right” will be published in 2011 by Press 53. Meg’s work was selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Flash Fiction 2009. She has published over one hundred stories and poems. You can see more of her animations here at http://pokrasstinations.com/
The world has been ending ever since I was a kid. Every year a new cable special highlights its demise. There are prophecies that parallel the events unfolding around all of us. Comets and floods and droughts and resistant influenza strains and religious leaders’ emergencies and terror plots and widespread homosexuality and Jesus’ face found on toasted bread and Y2K (that’s was a riot) and 2012 (just around the corner) and stock market dips and folks like these dudes: