Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box

by Mira Grant

A new short story from Mira Grant, the author of Feed. Every week five friends get together to play a game - a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before.

• ISBN10: 140552071X
• ISBN13: 9781405520713
• Publish Date: 2 July 2012 (first published 1 January 2011)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Orbit
• Edition: Digital original
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 24
• Language: English

Reviews

[Quirky Cat]

If you're looking for a quick read that will make you stop and think - Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box is the short story for you. I almost wish I had read this when it first came out (2011), as I feel like it would have hit differently then, as opposed to now.

Fun fact: if you read this short as part of Mira Grant's Apocalypse Scenarios Anthology, there's a little forward comment about that fact. So that's much appreciated, even if it is still quite dark.

Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box is twisted, but in a way that makes you think. The scenario should be completely out of the realm of possibilities, yet modern events probably changed that perspective a bit. I love the idea of a group of friends sitting around and chatting about how they would end the world. While morbid, it would certainly make you think, right?

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