The Deep

by Nick Cutter

That’s how it went with the ’Gets: you forgot the little things first, then the not-so-little things, then the big ones. Next, the critical ones. In time, your heart forgot how to beat, your lungs how to breathe. You die knowing nothing at all.

She forgot how to live, or… damn it all, I don’t know how this disease finishes us. It didn’t seem real.”

“What we’ve discovered appears to exist beyond all explication.”