Beacon 23

by Hugh Howey

only eight dead,

But he next mentions four men and two women. Oops!

four men and two women who did die out there,

That doesn't add up to 8.

It’s like a human body at age thirty-five, when not a single original cell is left.

Oh Lord, is this true? Must Google. Of course, Google is a bit stupid now; it let some idiot in the American White House convince it to call the Gulf of Mexico by another name.