David says as we walk down the center of a concrete road. Weeds grow up through the cracks, some of them reaching over shoulder height. We’re less than a mile into the suburbs, and already I’m feeling trapped. I feel as though we’ll never get out of here alive. Everything ...
He pulls the butt of his rifle hard into his elbow, keeping his elbow clipped close by his side as he shoots from the hip. Watching him crank the lever between shots, almost throwing the rifle away as he whips his one, good arm back and forth to reload, I feel terrible. I want to help, but we’re ...
More of a cage than an elevator, the rusting frame was a relic of The Great Leap Forward, the Herculean effort to build the new world above the rubble of the old. The concrete pylon was over two hundred feet in diameter, extending almost quarter of a mile beneath the ground. It was one of the num...
James wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. Although he was wearing leather gloves, blisters were forming on his palms as he dug with the spade, loosening a large rock from the ground. The two boys, Jonathan and Wilbur, were quiet as they kept up a blistering pace, throwing rocks into the car...
Teller, Bates and Anderson sat to one side at a second table with Robert Gaul, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. From the seating arrangement, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that science was taking a back seat to politics. Teller, Bates and Anderson swapped hand written not...
Bower sat to one side, bracing herself as the vehicle careened one way and then another. Elvis had a lead foot, both when accelerating and braking. The canvas cover at the back of the truck flapped in the breeze, allowing the growing dawn to seep through. The sky was a dark shade of blue. Streaks...