This was how it worked. You lived. You did your best. You got out of the way. You let those who come after you choose. You let them decide for themse… - Hugh Howey

I’m coming for you. I’m coming home, and I’m coming to clean.

There is much to do, pulling people away, right up until the Coast Guard comes and orders us to stop. Scott is dead. My cell phone is dead. My mother must think me dead. So it goes. I pick up the papers that have drifted down on the boat and have become plastered there, these relics from great buildings that no longer stand. The first one I grab is an insurance document. Listen: What I tell you here is true. The first line on the first page I pick up, it begins: In the event of damage to the building… So it goes.

NASA garb inside out and scattered like a tux on a wedding night,