![]() ![]() ![]() In some places the road was all but impassable.īen and his wife lois are visiting their more-successful friend stan and his new trophy wife mackenzie. Ruin had lately devoured most of the city and it encroached on either side of the abandoned interstate: derelict cars rusting back to the elements, skeletal trees stark against a gray horizon, an ashen, baked-looking landscape, though no fire had burned there. The threat in this case is known as "ruin." it seems to be similar to "the nothing" in michael ende's The Neverending Story:Ī wave of destruction creeping ever closer, withering everything in its path: instead of the wealthy and titled thinking themselves safe from the plague behind fortified walls and having a big old party about it, here we have a group of aaaartists celebrating in the face of encroaching death realizing its inevitability and thumbing their noses at it as they hold "suicide parties" where their death becomes a work of art itself, and one of their choosing. ![]() This story is a kind of riff on The Masque of the Red Death. ![]()
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