Status Updates From How High We Go in the Dark

Already fighting back tears again, thanks

Man works at an elegy hotel for brereaving families to safely dispose of their loved ones, his successful brother wants him to help out w their sick mom but he puts it off

He was estranged from their dad after a fight then he died from disease, now the pattern is repeating with their mom

It leaks about the pig so the man decides to try to give him a perfect last day sneaking out of the lab with a coworker and his gf all watching movies together at his apt

The pig decides he wants to help ppl and since it’s his choice they contact local hospitals in need of organ donations and the Dr tells him about the ending if ROTK

Fitch’s dad works on organ harvesting in pigs, one day the pig speaks due to mutations in the stem cells

He grows close to him like a replacement for Fitch but if his brain doesn’t stop growing he’ll eventually die

There’s some gravitational pull at the top so when they find a baby w them the ppl come together to try to get the baby into the pull and out of here, hoping he’ll go back into the body of a teen or adult

Iridescent orbs light the area and inside they can see memories play out, Skip is there older now wondering if Fitch is here too, some orbs show a prehistoric woman crying over the body of presumably Annie, some alien ship crash landing and possibly their home planet orbiting 3 stars

Jun babysat some kids who tested + and how’s he quarantined in a hospital, skin translucent, he comes to in the dark with 70 others, they’re not tired or hungry and the sensation getting to this void felt like falling so they want to try to climb up, doesn’t work

euthanasia theme parks are built w cabins for drug trial children as well, the virus affects children and the weak, Skip a comedian gets a job there

Skip meets Dory and her son Fitch who has only made it this far due to 3 organ transplants but now that it’s in the brain there’s no future, he’s on the waitlist for the next trial so Dori thinks she should take him to the park while he’s well enough to enjoy it

The disease alters the function of cells until normal organ function isn’t present (for example brain cells are in the liver), Dave is studying it in rats

Each one slowly gets the Arctic virus

Clara left behind a young daughter Yumi, her husband Died of stab wounds on a trip but Clara took weeks to return home to attend his grave

Annie had characteristics similar to a starfish to adapt and may have had advanced healing abilities

The team are in quarantine cuz of exposure to pathogens, the man finds solace and writes in Clara’s diary to her

Man continues his late daughter Clara’s work in Siberia after she unearthed an intact young girl from melting permafrost they named Annie

The cave where Clara died and Annie was found has carvings on the walls impossible for time, high-level math

David’s working on studying the pathogens in the Venice eventually as it melts it will be introduced to the world

😭 what have I gotten myself intooooooooo 😩
pretty sure I’m gonna do 14 different sobs but let’s go.

So far I read all those short stories in this book are not good enough for me.

As for the Sci Fi elements in the short stories that are not interesting.

Disappointing.