Lonely and Precocious. If The World Ended, #1

This was originally part of a collection called "If the World Ended, Would I Notice? and Other Stories." It's being republished as three books."Lonely and Precocious" explores the lives of various beings who are kindred spirits to my long-ago self, uncertain to notice the end of the world. They live in their own worlds: failing to notice, struggling to notice, noticing in unique ways, or sometimes just choosing not to notice, what the World Outside is up to.
These stories do not all deal with the end of a world, but they all feature worlds that are deeply transformed from the one we know. And each one faces the specter of an end, to be faced or averted, whether it's the end of the story's world or just the end of a character's worldview.