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. . . .”How did we get here? Where are we going? I thought we were heading into a millennial-like state. Now I’m not sure. Is the millennium more or less technical? Will we have more or less devices? We have had all this technological inspiration with new...

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Rocks were now moving everywhere. They kept tumbling down the hills. They were bouncing across the road. Rocks were moving back and forth like in a giant sifter–rolling back and forth with the larger chunks coming to the top. It was all being...

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Once you clear North Las Vegas the trip is uneventful to Mesquite. Uneventful until the lightning. Just out of Glendale it started to rain. Then the lightning bolts started trying to hit us. Aiming for us. I didn?t know whether to speed up or slow down. Cars are...

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She hurled. (An appropriate word considering the velocity and trajectory) It was just from the fierceness, the grossness, the intensity of the onslaught. Now the smell of the vomit added to the weird stink of the locusts. We knew we were about to perish. We gritted...

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Famines have always been geographical. So have plagues. The world wide calamities of today are a thoroughly modern phenomenon. Aids in Africa flashes around the world. A corn shortage in Iowa breeds hunger in South America. Bird flues are born on the winds faster than...

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We didn’t get to wait as long as we would have liked. It came in the night as a thump and a grind. It wasn’t violent but it was wrenching. We woke in the middle of the straining, squeaking and grinding; rolled together onto the floor, and just hung on to each other. I...