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"In Apocalypse the pain of living is having to wait it out. DeMarinis's characters sense that life is a trap, but they are unable to embrace the changes and challenges that might offer escape. They try alcohol, they try travel, and (most of all) they try off-limits love. They find themselves in harm's way, or put themselves there - but in life, as the title story states, "sometimes the worst doesn't happen."" "In "The Missile Gypsies," a nuclear engineer's casual faith in a universal safety mechanism is derailed by a surprise liaison with a coworker, an affair he is clumsily unable to hide…