Status Updates From You I Lie With

“You know, I always remember you,” he reassures.

“It’s funny to me how the world has decided to end now. We can’t even have our own disaster, we have to share the disaster with everyone else,”

“My name is Sam Watson.”

“That’s right.”

“I’m thirty-two years old.”

She smiles weakly, “You always say that. Keep dreaming, kid. You’re forty-five.”

“He has no memory of arriving at this hotel or of the events leading here. He walked into this room and she was here and that’s all he knows.”

“His body didn’t respond to the distant news of worldwide apocalypse, but it’s definitely responding to the sounds of Allison’s distress.”

“He’s having trouble conjuring up a reasonable amount of concern for the state of the world.”