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August 14 - October 14, 2020
After a while, the agony in my chest ebbed and died. That is, the man on top of me bled and died.
“There were some wounded,” Harry said. “We let them go.”
We did a quick, thorough job, searching everything except body cavities.
This ain’t a good day to look like you got something wrong with you.”
Or the sea! Salt is better than filth, ain’t it?
about twenty-five hundred dollars in all from the four corpses—
two knives
an empty, dirty Beretta nine millimeter.
a few pieces of jewelry
a single earring which turned out to be a radio.
I wondered who my attacker had robbed to get it.
the round purple pills we kept finding on people who attacked us?
Why can they do? What do they do with prisoners? Feed and clothe them? Give them medical attention a? From where? What structures and institutions are around to do anything? Question
Allison and Jillian Gilchrist
Their pimp was their father.
Haha
Even mutual defense - and trust - is transactional.
How much of that apparent hostility of hers was real, and how much might be due to her pain?
Was she going to be more trouble than she was worth?
Needs a father figure haha
Salinas,
It was as though the quake had given yesterday’s quiet, plodding paupers permission to go animal and prey on anyone who still lives in a house.
the ambient misery of the highway.
Chava the Golem with her telepathic empathy.
“Once people get the idea that it’s all right to take what you want and destroy the rest, who knows when they’ll stop.”
Sundowner towns
Haha
I suppose that after the fact, every accident was an armed robber with obvious homicidal inclinations.
Haha no doubt. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, it’s the army with that strategy. Whoever they kill was a guerrilla.
That settled the question of my sex for any of the new people who hadn’t already figured it out.
Haha
condoms for my own future,
Haha. Butler loves independent women who like sex and make their own decisions about it. And not always in keeping with mainstream 1990’s morality. The attitude is a descendant of R.A. Heinlein.
We were nine now, and bigger pots made sense.
I bought a fat anthology of poetry and Harry bought a western novel.
I didn’t quite believe him. But then, no one knew how much money I had either.
I hoped, not for the first time, that he wasn’t just a handsome thief.
“I had no brothers. My father needed to teach someone.”
Haha
Behind us in the distance, we could hear gunfire and the dull thunder of small explosions.
God is neither good nor evil, neither loving nor hating. God is Power. God is Change. We must find the rest of what we need within ourselves, in one another, in our Destiny.
Haha sabbath on Saturday or Sunday
the scavengers, predators, cops, and private armies of security guards seem bent on destroying what’s left,
Also, of course, pyro is doing its part.
Reporting from where? There’s a whole world of social and technological infrastructure that we don’t know anything about except when it impinges in our doughty band of questers. Question
In some places, the rich are escaping by flying out in helicopters.
To where? Infrastructure.
What else could another group of well-armed people do in such an insane situation?
The Bay Area will be a good place to avoid for a long time.
Haha
east along State Route 156.
hell, the maps are old. Maybe the area around I-5 is more settled now.
Haha no doubt
San Luis Reservoir.
Over the past few years a lot of things...
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2022 environmental degradation
San Juan Bautista.
Simile
Neither the hijackers nor the defenders would win.
