Author

Anaea Lay

Anaea Lay lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she sells Real Estate under a different name, writes, cooks, plays board games, spoils her cat, runs the Strange Horizons podcast, and plots to take over the world. Her work has appeared in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Apex, Nightmare and elsewhere. She lives online at anaealay.com.

http://anaealay.com/

Doomsday Will Come With Flame

There is a button looming over us, round and red and waiting. If I close my eyes I can see it, a bulletproof plastic case covering it in its shining metallic console. And the console rests in the bowels of a fortress impregnable for its distance as much as for the ring of blue…