One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin

Author:Lucy Corin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2017-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

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Two lovers stood at the door to Aladdin’s cave. They’d been at it forever. They each believed they were still in love, if only they could think of the right thing to say. They remembered magic words from childhood. But this was an apocalypse, so no such luck. They stood at the door to the cave, admiring a door that fits a cave. One of them thought about man and nature. One of them took her clothes off and struck a pose, shivering. An old lady came hobbling along in a cloak with a basket and offered them a million dollars from it if they’d do it right there in front of her. They did it and she gave them the million dollars, and they pushed it through the mail slot but the door still didn’t open. They were going to run their fingers through heaps of coins and put golden vessels over their heads like helmets, for fun. They wouldn’t come out of the cave, and they wouldn’t let anyone in, either, no matter what anyone said or what was shoved through the mail slot. Then another old lady came along in a cloak with a basket. “What’s in your basket?” they asked. The old woman said “Bread,” and suddenly the lovers were so hungry they offered to do it right there in front of her if she’d give them the bread, but the woman just rolled her eyes and hobbled off, muttering about the arrogance of young people.

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