The Beginning of the End

The end of the world as he knew it hadn't happened quite like Kurt had expected it would. First of all, he hadn’t really expected it at all; people who genuinely held beliefs about any sort of impending end of days were the sort of people he’d always found laughable. Secondly, there was no real fanfare, no big event setting it all off, no real “bang! Everything’s over! Happy apocalypse!” type moment; instead it had come on gradually, so insidiously. It had just sort of happened in such a way that things were out of control before many people really knew what hit them. Many people hadn’t really been paying attention and didn’t take serious precautionary actions until it was either too late or almost too late.