![]() ![]() ![]() Howard is a smart guy and a professional freelance writer, but his intellect is microscopic in comparison to his younger brother’s. The Stephen King short was originally published in 1986, running in an issue of the science-fiction centric Omni Magazine, but it found a much bigger audience when it was reprinted in the 1993 collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes (opens in new tab) – featured as the second entry after “Dolan’s Cadillac.” It’s a first person narrative that reads as stream of consciousness, with protagonist Howard Fornoy writing the story in the final minutes of his life so that there is a record explaining how it was that the human race became extinct. Instead of everyone dying screaming, everybody dies calm and confused. “The End Of The Whole Mess” is a different kind of apocalypse story. ![]()
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