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I remember reading, as a teenager in class, Ray Bradbury's quiet "The Last Night of the World" and the teacher trying to get us to believe that we'd all just run through our routines like any other night. I think kids and adults are different in their fatalism. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Diane Cook has a much more kinetic, visceral, and carnal take in her story "It's Coming" (in the collection Man V. Nature) where businesses (especially executives) keep on keeping on up until the very last moment as an unstoppable monster rampages through office buildings, killing everyone.

Check out "Carol & The End of The World," a bittersweet, comical animated series on Netflix. A comet is headed straight for the Earth and the characters each must decide how to live out their final months. As all hell breaks loose and behavioral norms shatter, some find refuge in office busywork.