The Last Reading on Earth, Ever: A Marathon Reading of Apocalyptic Writing
I just wanted to share some info about this event. My story “Polite Notes of the Dinnertime Neighborly Etiquette Apocalypse” (first published in Brave Blue Mice in August of 2011) will be part of it. Here’s the skinny:
THIS EVENT IS TAKING PLACE ONLINE ALL DAY – WATCH ANY TIME FROM ANYWHERE THAT HAS THE INTERNET.
You can watch at www.youtube.com/indigestmag or www.indigestmag.com
InDigest is hosting an online reading Friday, December 21st, of apocalyptic poems and stories to welcome the day of the apocalypse, the day of our ultimate doom.
They’ve had the interns in the InDigest Offices working night and day to find an exact time for the apocalypse, but, as of this moment, they have no definitive answer. They offer their apologies. Rest assured that the InDigest Offices will not rest until they are able to tell you exactly the moment that human life as we know it will cease to matter.
Since they don’t know when the rapture begins, they’ll start the marathon reading in the morning, and it will go until we’re all dead.
Starting Friday morning you’ll be able to watch the entire marathon reading through InDigest’s YouTube channel or right at their website. (It’ll be very obvious where to go on our homepage.) That means you can start it any time you’d like. It’ll be available in its entirety all day. Gather your loved ones, have your last meal, and listen to some of the world’s finest writers read their poems, prophecies, stories, and speculations about the end of mankind as we know it. (Though, if the internet survives we’ll have a nice record of how wrong we were about our end, as this reading will live forever in our hearts and minds. Or, failing that, in the instance of true apocalypse, it’ll live forever on the internet, this foreign, mysterious electronic thingamajig that the hybrid cockroach-twinkie overlords will need to figure out to truly understand what came before them.)
