Frustrated by a flirtacious apocalyspe that keeps promising to show, but always puts you off at the last minute, there's nothing to do but write. Jessica Zoe Hutchins reads "Apocalypse Cowboy/California Freeze," about Los Angeles' surreal and anti-climactic Y2K celebration (read it online); Marc Herbst reads prose; Jen Liu reads poems; Michael Wilson "zealously asserts the transformative capacity of the Eschaton" (more at www.e-coma.org); Ben Ehrenreich reads about decomposing giant squids, falling buildings and the torment of fresh strawberries.