The Book of Joan

by Lidia Yuknavitch

The Deccan Traps changed the ecosystem radically. Blotted out the sun. Death became history, geography rewrote itself. And yet earth was reborn. It was not a miracle that life was destroyed and then re-emerged. It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.

The will to live is so strong. I feel the sporadic waves in my ears; the blasted song in my head is receding but not leaving.