Apocalypse: Last Production
Handwriting from twelve years ago — the strokes heavier than they were now, the flourishes drawn wide and loose, like someone who wasn't afraid of wasting paper.
I turned to page twelve. A layout diagram of the bunker.
Seven bunks, one incubation unit, the storeroom at the end of the hallway, the concrete-sealed door nearly two feet thick.
In the bottom right corner of the diagram, a note in my own handwriting:
"The apocalypse has to feel real. Push the heat up, make the water filthy — let the audience practically smell it. Rotate the insiders every season, keep one genuinely unwitting participant — protects the ratings."
After "genuinely unwitting," there was a note in parentheses. Just one