Stories tagged “fallout”

  • A Sinking Sun. A Rising Fear.

    Day 206 since nuclear fallout. Diary entry number 151. Time 11:41 PM. Temperature 53 degrees Fahrenheit. This is my third night sleeping under the Atlantic sky, and each night I fear more and more. I fear of the world as it looks from space. No more of...

  • Drift

    From the London Globe and Mail, November 4, 2009: REUTERS — Top scientists and military are being called into London so as to devise a plan by which the extent of nuclear radiation on the Isles’ soil shall be minimalised. The matter was tab...

  • Delayed Gratification

    Nora swallowed part of her doughnut, asked, “Good news?”, and took another bite. “Yes,” Ted responded, head cocked so the telephone receiver would not fall. “GlaxoSmithKline’s willing to front us some cancer drugs. A...

  • The Wanderer

    Out of the comfortable place of his birth and into the dry winds of the desert he traveled. A location to search for a crucial item and instructions to bring it back are his only help. Salvation for his kind, his way of life, and himself were all wrapp...

  • Lilac Park and Gray Snow

    With a kind of blind devotion to the task, they sat there, under the lilac, sheltered from the August sun. Out past the fence at the end of the grass, there was little. Some stone, some concrete, some ash. This lilac park might be the only color left, ...