Islands on the Coast_The Tsunami_Leaflets_Life in a Shell
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Islands on the Coast
“When he was ousted from office, Porfirio Diaz boarded his yacht to Europe, turned, took one last look at his country and said: “Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States!” Porfirio Diaz also said: “Nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens.” The bucket hat wearing hipster snubbed out his clove and let his opened paperback of The Savage Detectives slide down his chest. Above him the canvas of a yellow parasol rippled in a wind coming off the ocean, the sorta yellow parasol you see Neil Young standing near on the ‘On the Beach’ jacket cover. Staring off at thwww.onedoor.cce ocea...
The Tsunami
Note, wrote this between 5:15 pm and now (about 6:30) today, just to keep my hand in here. Hope you like it, although there is only a little dialogue in this one.It had only taken a short time for the tidal wave to cover the island. It was seen offshore on its way in and ten minutes later it arrived. No one was prepared—how could they be? A massive wall of water three-hundred feet high does not take much time to cross many miles of ocean—on the other side of which a volcano had split off one side, sliding it into the ocean with a giant “kerplop!” Later, they called it a “catastrophic flank col...
Leaflets
In the end it was later than it was supposed to be, and the summer solstice had slipped past – in itself a grey, gloomy day, with dull drizzle, and below average temperatures, as if it knew, and acquiesced to the anticlimax, and mirrored the melancholy. The days had already started to draw in, and the dawn to come later, and autumn to tinge the air before the last of the restrictions were lifted. But now they had been lifted, and now lockdown was finally over, and the Prime Minister repeated words like irreversible and used words like resurgence and green shoots. He never actually did say su...
Life in a Shell
As the other side of the world began to panic, Betty and Gabriel were prepared for what was to come. For years, they had been building an underground shelter on their property and had been filling it up with supplies of water, canned goods, batteries, toilet paper, and anything else that they would need to survive for an extended time.Gabriel was driving home from the construction site where he worked and overheard a news broadcast that talked about a deadly virus that was spreading quickly across the East. Within days, China and Russia were completely consumed. The newsman stated that the vi...