That sounds like “Passengers” by Robert Silverberg.
The wiki description matches perfectly. Thanks!
No, I think pinkfreud was right. I know it’s not the story from Asylum, although that also has crawling body parts–I have that film on DVD, on a shelf not 3 feet from me even as I type this.
Aliens attempt to destroy the human race by building giant mirrors (or possibly lenses) in orbit around the Earth to raise the ambient temperature.
Well, since I found one for somebody else maybe someone can find this one for me. Happens on a spaceship, a malfunctioning thruster or something ramps their speed up to99.99999999…% of light speed. They’re basically screwed and time inside slows down so much that they observe the end of the universe. And it’s NOT “Tau Zero” by Poul Anderson.
Perhaps Kyrie, another story by Poul Anderson, one that has come up on the Dope several times before:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12037078#post12037078
Nope, no telepathic twins.
Well, another possibility is mentioned in that thread.
I’ve got a short story from 1968 or '69:
When it is first noticed that the world-wide death rate is approximately equal to the world-wide birth rate, statisticians believe it is a statistical anomaly. But when it continues, year after year, they realize that somehow a maximum limit has been imposed on the number of people living on Earth.
Nations of the world try to use this fact to “birth” out the older people of other nations, until they realize they have no idea just which country’s people they are killing.
They story ends as one woman dies just as she is giving birth.
This one was in an 8th grade reading book that reprinted stories from various authors and sources. A kid sneaks out hunting with his shotgun that he isn’t allowed to take out on his own. He shoots at a patch of what appears to be gray fur thinking it is a rabbit. Oops. He kills an elderly neighbor by mistake. He disposes of the empty shell and sneaks back home to put the gun up without getting caught. The story ends with him being determined never to tell.
Ok, as a civil engineer dealing with traffic issues I really want to read this story. I hope someone can ID it.
I seem to have found something to do tonight. 
I’ve found people asking about the same story on other boards over the years.
Best answer so far: The Tunnel Ahead, by Alice Glaser. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1961, pp. 54-61.
Looks like it’s more obtainable in here: Sci-Fi Womanthology
“Tricentennial” by Joe Haldeman perhaps? There was no end of the universe but it was set on a spaceship with a malfunctioning engine and by the time they fix it, it’s a thousand years in the future and everyone on Earth is dead.
Yeah, looks like it.
*André Øvredal’s short film The Tunnel is based on the sci-fi short story The Tunnel Ahead written by Alice Glaser in 1961. It was published in Norway in 1991 in an anthology edited by Norway’s leading sci-fi authors, Jon Bing og Tor Åge Bringsværd. The story takes place in a future with extreme overpopulation, and with people living in megacities. One way to cure the problem is to let the gates of tunnels leading into the cities close at random moments, and everyone who are inside them will be killed. *
A short story I read which I can’t remember the name of. It’s about a spirit of violent malevolence that somehow passes invisibly between little boys. Any ideas?
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- A man is sent to some sort of prison planet where the prisoners grow extra body parts – ears on their backs, for example. Every once in awhile, someone comes around to give them all a dose of happy gas and cuts off the extra parts to be used for transplants.
Huh, I was going to go with A Planet Called Treason, but I think yours is closer.
I think it was a story in one of the ‘Science Fiction Hall of Fame’ series, but the only thing I can remember about it is one of the characters, a small child called someone ‘Jerry Ho-Ho.’
“Baby is Three” by Theodore Sturgeon - the teleporting twins (Bonnie and Beanie) teased Jerry, saying “Jerry hee-hee” and “Jerry Ho-ho” as they popped in and out nearby him. Baby Is Three - Wikipedia
Relevant link
^^Thanks!