Something unknown whacked the Maya civilization back in the day. One by one, their cities were abandoned, and by A.D. 900 the Maya civilization was gone, disappeared, vamoosed off to feed the fishes. I’ve had that same sinking feeling about our great cities, “New York, London, and Tokyo.” One by one they will be abandoned as variations of the Corona viruses come back, year after year, to wipe out the tightly packed city dwellers. All the lights of those great cities will flicker, like the great cities of the Mayans and then disappear, into the mummy dust and overgrown archaeology filtered vegetation of history. Rome was once the template for the modern metropolis. But it to was virtually abandoned. The population falling from over a million to around 50,000. War, hunger, or pandemics, who knows? We’ll soon be looking forward to escaping our straight-jacket cement prisons and heading for the…
She was found. The day had come. Valar was going to see Bani, her mother. The skies were blue, but not too blue. It…
“What’s wrong, Mary?” Baby John asks. We still call him Baby John, even though he’s already five. He lies flat in the bunk across…
Published by Abington House, USA, “One Long Journey” is primarily a story of survival and hope in the face of adversity and social upheaval,…
“That’s my grandson over there. You see the blanket movin’? The one with the most black hair. There, he’s kickin’ again. He’s my first.…
“Why am I so ugly?” She used to wail at me. I thought a smile would do the trick. That it would make her…
Gautam- Hello Kanishka, Gautam here, How are you? Kanishka- Hi Gautam, pulling on somehow. What about you? G- Me too, pulling on. Tired off…
I have always thought that I must possess a special mark that is only visible to certain otherworldly entities, sort of like Hester…
