In 2009 3.5 million homes had been foreclosed and 17 percent of the population was unemployed or underemployed. Personal bankruptcies reached 6000 a day. 50 million Americans were going hungry on a weekly basis. 60 million people had no access to healthcare other than an emergency room and 40 million more paid insurance premiums but [...]
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Martial Law In America Part I
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Short Stories
Tags: biochem weapons·Blackwater·civilian deaths·collapse of society·home invasion·martial law·military takeover·militias·social unrest·U.S. Military
In Borneo Still
January 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Short Stories
My uncle Rex was described as the black sheep of the family. He’d been to seven colleges and never earned a degree which proved, according to my Aunt May, that he wasn’t “committed to responsibility.” My mother would inform me darkly that Uncle Rex had no steady employment or career but worked “odd jobs.” This [...]
Tags: Borneo·mortality·philosophy
