I was asleep when the world started to end. While the first skyscraper fell, I was under my covers dreaming of somewhere new. I was asleep when the world started to end. While the virus ran its course and charged like a legion of soldiers, I was pressed against my pillows watching shadows behind my eyes. I was asleep when the world started to end. While the fires broke out in the churches and the bombs went off in the hospitals, a puddle of drool was collecting on my blanket while I snoozed away. I was asleep when the world started to end. While the tidal waves hit the shoreline and washed away shopping malls and grocery stores, I was sprawled out across a bed, lightly snoring. I was asleep when the world started to end. While the asteroid entered the atmosphere and the people of this world shouted in terror and confusion, I was talking in my sleep to anyone who cared to listen. I woke up when the world was over.