The Last

Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife's text message. I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we left it. Love you. But as he's waiting in the lobby of the L'Hotel Sixieme in Switzerland after an academic conference, still mulling over how to respond to his wife before he returns to her in San Francisco, he receives a string of push notifications. Washington D.C. has been bombed. Then New York. Then London. Then Berlin. That's all he knows before news outlets and social media goes black--and before the clouds on the horizon turn orange.