Status Updates From Tornado Season

The last story here begins: "It's late summer in London and all the pigeons have died." It ends with starlings black against the sky and pink dawn. Cheery.

They're all like this.

"Waves roll black against the night." No, they don't.

Stories of sacrifice and disappointment. Heroic statues come alive and a little boy is convinced the tooth fairy is dead because the city sprayed to stop West Nile and that killed her. The cover is a stunner, but these are stories of the post-apacolypse.