[ WP ] The apocalypse has begun . Not through mass destruction , but through everyone on earth encountering fatal `` accidents '' , one by one .

71 %. 
 
 
 71 % of over seven billion people. In only two weeks. They were no longer even bothering to clean up the bodies. 
 
 
 My wife had been one of the first to go. A piano had dropped on her from twenty stories up. It was instant at least. It had made the news. The bizarre accidents were no longer newsworthy individually. 
 
 
 After the funeral I had spent the week on my couch, staring at the ceiling and not really seeing it. The news droning in the background painted a pretty grizzly picture even before one of the boom mics had come swinging down like death's scythe and impacted squarely into the smiling anchors temple. The tv just displayed a holding pattern now. Not that it really mattered. 
 
 
 My eyes fell from the ceiling to the floor. The room was clean and tidy with one rather significant deviation. A banana peel. A banana peel I had n't put there. A banana peel that had n't been there when I laid down. 
 
 
 I made up my mind. Standing up with a determination that I had n't had in days I took one step firmly onto the peel.
