Status Updates From Der letzte Tag

“…descended to scoop them up with their scarecrow parts, and to offer them like treasures brought to a king by beggars.”

WOW. Just wow. Phenomenal writing

“…fizzed, raised themselves up wearily and onto their thin legs. Draped in remnants of cloth, the slender arms of these shabby silhouettes were raised to the sky and from unseen mouths came a faint wail.
There were no birds in the air; they formed the terrible flotsam upon the tide of the dead water. In their thousands they surged and flopped. A black flock of feather and bone, upon which the raggedy men…”

GORGEOUS piece of writing:
“There was no sun, only a forever of black cloud reaching from horizon to horizon above dark water and the dusty plain before it. Nothing grew there. A cold wind gusted across the grey dust, the ashes and cinders, the still water.
His arrival in the emptiness did not go unnoticed. Because the raggedy figures upon the briny shore, where the oily waters lapped and fizzed and lapped and…