Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box by Mira Grant

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.

Reviewed by Quirky Cat on

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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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