Status Updates From In the Shadow of Blackbirds

“Surely, though, I must have stolen into the future and landed in an H.G. Wells style-world — a horrific, fantastical society in which people’s faces contained only eyes, millions of healthy young adults and children dropped dead from the flu, boys got transported out of the country to be blown to bits, and the government arrested citizen for speaking the wrong words….it couldn’t be the United States…”