Global Warming Catastrophe

Sea Levels! They’re going through the roof! No more dry land! This is it! The end is near! How near, you ask? Well, it’s about an hour away actually.
Your move.

Get Well Soon, Really Soon

You’re flipping through greeting cards at the local stationery store. A friend is sick and you want to send him a little note to hopefully cheer him up a bit. You disliked pretty much everything in the “Get Well” section, always too corny or sappy, and are now examining the cards with nothing written inside [...]

Cosmic Rogue Wave

The beeping of the dive computer tells you it’s time to begin your ascent. You check your pressure and see almost 850 psi left in the tank. You’ve only been 50 minutes and could easily stay down a bit longer, but you did your deep dives earlier in the week, and don’t need to push [...]

Unintentional Armageddon

Someone spilled a drink on the launch console for a few nuclear missiles and now everything is going to compost. It was an accident, of course, but no one really cares about that now, not with all those retaliatory missiles swarming like hornets across the globe, homing in on their targets, or wherever. The important [...]

Alien Conquest

Ironically, the machines the aliens are using to exterminate us actually look quite a lot like those depicted in H. G. Wells’s novel, The War of the Worlds. Doubly, no Triply, no… Supercalifragilistically ironically, their leader’s name is Xenu. Yeah, everyone is pretty flabbergasted about that. But it hardly matters.
The only thing that does matter [...]

The Not-So-Super-Virus

Let’s call it the Bad-Enough-Virus. It’s not Ebola, SARS, or Avian Flu, but your doctor says it will kill you in an hour. Your head feels as if someone has just hammered a wedge between the plates of your skull, and every single joint in your body aches, including every knuckle on each of your [...]

Supermarket of Doom

You’re in the produce section when the announcement comes over the P.A.:
“Attention Happy Snappy Grocery customers, the world will end in approximately 60 minutes. Please bring your final selections to the checkout stands.”
Your cart is empty but for five plump Kohlrabi which have suddenly taken on a very ominous quality that you find strangely disturbing.
What [...]

The Rapture is Real

Putting their eschatological horse before their life-loving wagon, millions of muddle-headed Tim LaHaye fans around the world have arranged for hundreds of nuclear bombs to go off in about an hour at all points of the compass, thereby bringing a fiery end to all life on earth. Everyone who’s anyone has tried to talk them [...]

Death from Above

An asteroid the size of Rhode Island has just been detected heading straight for the earth, and it will impact in about an hour, far too soon for anyone to do anything about. While some life, one hopes, may live on despite the horrible, planetary destruction this will cause, your particular location just happens to [...]

Doomsday à la LHC

The Large Hadron Collider just created a black hole which has started sucking all matter into its un-quenchable vortex. But it will take about an hour before it’s large enough to completely consume the earth.
What will you do with your last 60 minutes?