by jphirst | Apr 23, 2009 | Sliding, Sliding Excerpts
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...
by jphirst | Apr 23, 2009 | Sliding, Sliding Excerpts
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...
by jphirst | Apr 23, 2009 | Sliding, Sliding Excerpts
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...
by admin | Apr 16, 2009 | Sliding, Sliding Excerpts
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...
by admin | Apr 16, 2009 | Sliding, Sliding Excerpts
Jill had gone into the face of this evil with a mixture of courage and naivete. She would be different. She could make a difference. She had never seen bloodshed except in surgery. She had never felt hate or violence. There were children to be saved and a testimony of...
by jphirst | Apr 16, 2009 | Sliding, Sliding Excerpts
Last summer the devastating fires in California combined with severe fuel shortages and nationwide rationing of electricity had caused unprecedented restrictions. Of course, the inability of utilities to deliver water, or electricity, or other services where needed...
