Apoptosis: An Anthology Regarding Stagnancy

In this anthology, sometime in the modern-ish day, a man stands over a trash can with its contents on fire on the wet roof of his apartment complex. Maybe a hundred years later, another man sits in his apartment staring into an ocular abyss, not knowing that within what could have been in his lifetime a cartoonish-looking robot responsible for staving off the apocalypse will rove over the remains of the very building he's imprisoned in. All the while, a young woman becomes her beloved's sac...