story: “The Billings Brothers at the End of the World”
author: Chelsea Hanna Cohen
year: 2019
where: back home, Abu Dhabi
note: from Split Lip
a line: “Philip thinks there’s something wrong with the ride, but then he realizes that everything is shaking and Suzie is screaming and off in the distance the skyline of the city crumbles, entire skyscrapers falling into themselves before his eyes, and he barely has time to marvel at what he’s seeing before the bones of the Ferris wheel give way as well.”