For the moment, America, like many other countries, was an undustrialized nation, most of its commerce shut down in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
by Monkey's Dad April 04, 2020
She had always taken comfort in the idea that character is destiny, that good people would prevail, that the bad would receive their just punishment. Now, with the possibility of a second term, and the further catastrophe it would unleash, she was not so sure.
by Monkey's Dad September 19, 2020
He tried not to do the same stupid thing more that two hundred times, but it seemed to happen anyway, and he was growing tired of breathing recirculated err.
by Monkey's Dad May 01, 2020
Glancing into her closet, filled with lovingly-chosen clothing she no longer wore, slipping on her plastic coat, her mask and rubber gloves to go 'shopping', she recalled what her mother had taught her when she was young, that appearances matter, and wondered when it would be true again.
by Monkey's Dad May 14, 2020
Oil prices fall below zero, Texas, the nation's leading crude oil producer, looks in the mirror and sees Venezuela.
Once unimaginable, today US oil prices plunged to minus $40 a barrel, and Texazuela may face economic collapse.
by Monkey's Dad April 20, 2020
The pain, the hunger, the ceaseless cruelties endured by so many, for no one's gain, immobilized her. She knew she was emotionally tragile and could never be indifferent to the grief of others.
by Monkey's Dad March 05, 2020
The day and night sharing of life during the pandemic, shut off from the known world, making home start to feel like Middle Earth.
Having been under one roof for months, losing track of the outside world, she gradually began to think of their relationship as cohobbitation, each of them now slightly different than normally human.
by Monkey's Dad July 17, 2020