Our newest installment of Exponential Apocalypse’s The First Twenty-Two is up: “Last Minute,” set during the second apocalypse.

There was an asteroid on a direct trajectory with Earth. The impact will shatter the planet, one specialist had said.

The globe’s top scientists convened. They hastily figured out a way to move the Earth, change its orbit. The endeavor wasn’t safe, and it certainly wasn’t foolproof, but it was unanimously decided to be better than nothing.

This was originally written for the late, great Bananafish Magazine as an Editor Edition. You can read the whole story here.

It’s Wednesday and that means new content here on Jersey Devil Press. Which, in hindsight, we never actually announced, so let’s do that. New content every Wednesday on Jersey Devil Press, with new issues the last Wednesday of every month. And, if for some reason we don’t have something new, we’ll recycle older stuff or link somewhere else. There will be stuff to read is the point.

Anyway, this week it’s “By Any Other Clock,” by Eirik Gumeny, the first of The First Twenty-Two, a series of short stories set in the EA universe prior to the events of the novel.

It had been fifteen solid minutes since anyone’s phone had last rung. Even the guy Jorge had been keeping on hold had hung up. The entire customer service department was beginning to get worried. But, more than that, they were bored. Fifteen minutes in a call center is an eternity by any other clock.

Read the whole thing here, or refresh yourself on Exponential Apocalypse here first.