My Apocalypse - Softcover

Marian Fontana; Elissa Schappell; Erin Courtney; Jonah Winter; John Duncan Talbird; Alexandra Collier; Jack Wilson; Paul Ketchum; Martin Kleinman; Karinne Keithley Syers; Bryant Musgrove; Terence Degnan; Kate Hill Cantrill; Ginger Cofield; Cody Burke; Steve Sheinkin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982504136 ISBN 13: 9780982504130

Publisher: Sock Monkey Press, 2012

Synopsis

My Apocalypse, edited by Scott Adkins. Adkins asks seventeen writers to tell us how they want the world to end. The anthology is an exploration of apocalyptic fascinations from poets, fiction writers, journalists, playwrights, and screenwriters. (Retails for $20.00. ISBN: 978-0-9825041-3-0. Trade paper-back. Published December 21st, 2012. Includes 34 pages of color reproductions of Glen Einbinder s Dream Cards.) From the introduction: It is no easy task to know death, our own death, let alone to know the end of everything we know. I ask myself, if December 21st, 2012 marks the end and I get to decide how it all ends, then what would my apocalypse be? My first instinct is that we all just disappear, the whole kit and caboodle. That's the easy choice because we end hunger, poverty, greed, materialism, global warming, persecution, war, torture--like a satisfying xxxx going down the toilet. In this version a volcano erupts out of the trunk of my car while I race to Washington DC with a stray dog in the passenger seat to tell the President of the United States how to save the world. But, I don't make it, I get a flat tire, the lava consumes me, the moon falls to earth, and then phhhpt. That's it. Easy way out. Not my way. ...

About this edition

• Publisher: Sock Monkey Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0982504136
• ISBN 13: 9780982504130
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166
• Editor: Scott R. Adkins
• Illustrator: Glen Eden Einbinder (interior Dream Cards), Ethan Crenson (interior Photos - Fallen Cones), Erin Courtney (cover Design)