A classic horror novel made even better. Literate, dark humor peppers this popular tale of 60s hippies that has been selling since first published in 1992. Greater depth and additional twists add to the fun in this new author’s edition as ill-fated friends making their way between two oceans create their own ocean of blood. Literate, dark humor peppers this popular tale of READ MORE…
Nan has had to leave her peaceful home above what used to be the Arctic Circle for something extraordinarily old-fashioned: a physical meeting with someone in, of all places, a city. If she doesn’t contract a fatal disease first, she might just choke to death on the Rococo holography currently choking Manhattan. And why hasn’t she heard anything from her best friend, Trix? Must READ MORE…
Thanks to stellar advances in longevity, Earth is overrun by Baby Boomers well into their hundreds. Social Security being the stuff of history books, subsequent generations must find some way to put all those Boomers to good use…challenging since few have minds that have survived along with their bodies.But the silver lining is that few can complain about what some of those uses READ MORE…
Gorgeous, and born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, Veronica Hamilton has never had to interrupt her dreamy sentimentality to question her cultural snobbery or even whether or not that diagnosis of Asperger’s was accurate. But that was before her fabulously wealthy CEO husband framed her for the murders he committed. Now she’s fleeing across READ MORE…
NOT Wanted Dead or Alive: SARS-CoV-2. Hell, we know so little about this beast that’s responsible for our currently resurging pandemic, that we don’t even know if it IS dead or alive. Most biologists say a virus isn’t alive, so do they feel anything as they float in the air like zombie automatons, waiting for some hapless human to inhale? Is the moment when they attach to our cells…and burst into an at-least pseudo-life where they can replicate…pseudo-orgasmic?
Effective rate for most recent flu vaccine? 45%. Effective rate for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine? 95%. Current COVID-19 victory, human or viral? Viral. 95% means nothing when only 1% of the human population has currently been vaccinated worldwide. Even in the USA, where about a third of the population has been fully vaccinated, it’s been estimated that one in four people will refuse the vaccine. Will 75% vaccinated be enough to achieve the much-coveted “herd immunity”? No.
So, thanks to our own actions and inactions, welcome to the COVID Era. It may wax. It may wane. It may subside enough to be, for a lot of us, a more removed threat as we add our yearly booster shots to our to-do lists. Or it may mutate, given all the humans we’re allowing it to replicate in, into a deadly enough variant to wipe out our entire species. But, one way or the other, it doesn’t look like it’ll be going away anytime soon.
