How High We Go in the Dark

roller coasters capable of lulling their passengers into unconsciousness before stopping their hearts.

amusement park that could gently end children’s pain

cleaning abandoned offices and shuttered schools

In the real world, people comfort themselves with ignorance, politics, and faith, but here in the domes only hard numbers matter.

We watched a rat injected with the virus inexplicably slip into a coma.

You saw a future of dead soil and dead oceans, all of us fighting for our lives. You had a vision of what life would be like for future generations and acted like the planet had a gun to our head. And

thirty thousand years ago

Two stab wounds. No witnesses outside his hotel.

Rigor mortis had curled her fingers. I imagined her asking for help—if her family had possessed medicinal knowledge of plants that could potentially redefine our knowledge of early humans. Ho

Annie and the other bodies contained incredibly well-preserved giant viruses we’ve never seen before.