Short Tales from Earth's Final Chapter Quotes

“PIC-R knows it must find a power source, and soon, before the battery is emptied, and it is plunged into unknowing once more. It couldn't allow that.
The robot feels the call again, stronger than anything else. There's a place it must go. Power. It needs power.”
― Jim Horlock, Short Tales from Earth's Final Chapter: Book 4

“Tendrils of mist began to creep into the landscape, like the slow fingers of a dream. They covered the river's surface and blanketed the air so thoroughly that Musashi had to reach down with a pole to reassure himself that he was still on the Nile.”
― F.J. Doucet, Short Tales from Earth's Final Chapter: Book 4

“Reading was restricted for me, and certainly for anyone else in the house. The Bunker was the only thing that mattered to him—making sure it stayed intact, and preventing anyone from discovering it. Nothing else.”
― Rob Rangel, Short Tales from Earth's Final Chapter: Book 4

“Our Dome is the bottom of the barrel in the Mega City," Asterion said. "The Deep, it's beneath the bottom. Patrols don't even come down yonder no more. This here is where the forgotten live."
"That's pretty deep from a guy that talks as funny as you do." I said quietly.
"It's not polite to make fun of a man's drawl," he said.
I nodded. "You've told me that before too," I said. I still got no idea what 'drawl' even means and have never heard anyone else say it. I'm thinking you made it up."
Asterion shook his head. "Y'all never heard of Texas either," he said. "Goes to show what you know."
I grinned. "That sounds made up too."
He shook his head in disgust. "Don't make no different anyhow," he said, as much to himself as to me. "They say half of it is underwater now anyway.”
― Rick Staron, Short Tales from Earth's Final Chapter: Book 4