Monday, 27 July 2020

Endure the Wave by Jimmy Boom Semtex

"It was... it was meant to happen," Jelma replied, almost a whisper. Her gaze was a thousand yards long.

"What? Why do you say that? Are you mad?" Chen was incredulous.

Those lovely eyes locked him in their gaze. "Do you believe in fate? That something will happen, no matter what. I do. Life has taught me that. The attack I survived over two decades ago is proof of that. It was fate Chen. Every single bit of it."

Chen thought long and hard. He looked inwards. Time passed. Finally he nodded. "Yes, I believe in fate. Because fate brought us together. It never had to but it did. I felt something was missing from my life. I felt that for most of my adult life. Even when busy studying or working, I felt it. And then I saw you, I knew it was meant to be. And I felt complete. So yes, I believe in fate. Of course, my story is very different from yours. Not as..." He couldn't finish his sentence. Profound as it was.

Jelma finished it. "Not as horrific, horrible, terrible, traumatic. And a thousand other evil bad words. Meaning pain beyond words. And meaning death."

"Oh fucking hell Jelma. I didn't want to say it. Fuck..." Chen looked at her. Her eyes were full of something. A survivor's guilt and something more. A fire, an inner strength that only people who've been to hell, and survived, have. Jelma had been to hell and she'd survived. Even though the cost was almost total: both parents dead, third degree burns, shrapnel wounds and who knew what else in her head.

"Yes, fucking hell. I was in hell. The North Korean terrorists put me there. But I endured and survived. Lots didn't, like my folks. I believe in karma and those terrorists will have a lot of bad karma to work through. Many lifetimes in fact. I don't hate them. I forgive them. Anyhow, it's good you believe in fate. It did bring us together." For the first time since meeting in the French restaurant, she smiled. And meant it.


https://www.scribd.com/book/262984331/Endure-the-Wave



Endure the Wave

by Jimmy Boom Semtex

Friday, 24 July 2020

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1/2/2020

5- Cc 191 2020
2/23/2020

6- Incident Report 74399 2020
4/10/2020

7- SUCTION PUMP 2020
7/1/2020

8- 2021?

Thursday, 23 July 2020

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Potato Death

Potato Death

Cecil Eccleswaite the 3rd was a raving lunatic. You don’t mess with Cecil. He creates kaos to destruction to over the world. Currently, he’s on the number 13 bus from Manchester to Bury, Lancashire. No one in Bury had any idea what would shortly happen. And only one man had a chance of stopping Cecil - Gonk, a Royal Marine.

Cecil was upstairs. He smiled maliciously, stood up and reached into his pocket. A big breasted woman screamed and pointed, “Oh shit! That man has a suicide vest on! We’re gonna get fried!”

“We’re all going to die!” shouted the woman, her big cleavage wobbling like award winning spuds.

Slowly Cecil removed his hand from his green jacket. It held a potato. His smile was evil. So were his words. “Wrong! I’m the spud thrower.”

“Are you on drugs?” a brown haired youth asked.

“Shut your tater hole!” Cecil angrily replied.

“Fuc...” was all the youth managed to say. A single potato hit him in the mouth, wedging there. The force smashed his head through the window. Blood jetted everywhere and his neck was broken. Panic erupted!

Cecil Eccleswaite the 3rd stopped it. His hand moved faster than Ricky Valentino with his gay lover. A medium sized spud looped through the air, bounced off a seat and hit a red haired man in his throat. “Ugh,” muttered the dying man.

The blond lady jumped out of her seat and ran at Cecil. A potato hit her upper right arm, breaking it. She became violent. “You fucking weirdo!” A metre from Cecil, she jumped.

“No you don’t,” he retorted. Another spud hit her temple and half her skull fell away. Still she advanced!

“Death by cleavage! I’ll show you!” were her last words when she fell upon her enemy. Her 84DD tits popped out of her gigantic black silk bra. They were like quivering live things, unlike her almost dead body that had a figure like a sack of spuds.

“Get off me, you mad head!” roared Cecil. The woman’s big breasts straddled his face and her nineteen stone flattened Cecil. A potato went ballistic and hit a quiet pensioner, killing her. Cecil’s lights nearly went out. Two breasts, each one weighing as much as a lawnmower, suffocated Cecil. Would the dead Russian shot putter, Olga, save the world?

No! Cecil invoked the alien God of Mauve potatoes and threw the Russian bird off him like a drunk downing a pint. Cecil was mad!

“I’m the potato gangster! Die you human underlings! Death by potato,” he screamed, red in the face and chucked three dozen spuds. Six remaining people on the top deck died, with fatal injuries.

“Who’s the man? I’m the man, the man of spuds!” shouted Cecil, running to the stairs and jumping down. A man was on his way up to see what the commotion was. Cecil’s size 6 gardening boot sent him flying and a small potato entered the top of the man’s skull. Such was the speed of Cecil’s superhuman strength and aim.

“Oh God, save us!” whimpered a body builder, his beef cake muscles trembling.

Cecil heard him and grinned. Holding up a potato, Cecil nodded, “Do you know what this is? Do you young man?”

“A potato,” answered the alpha male.

“Yes, a humble potato.”

“Are you ill in the fucking head, you spud brain? You waffle on about bullshit.”

“No, I’m the spud chucker!” laughed Cecil. In an under arm move, he launched the spud. It hit the fifteen stone muscle man, breaking three ribs. One popped through his spam vest.

The man stood up and took a step forward. “You fucking freak.”

“Good observation,” confirmed Cecil, aiming again. The potato hit the muscle man, knocking him down dead. Twenty two other passengers sat still, frozen in awe and fear.

“Potato death time!” whispered the madman. In a power wank move that a humming bird would have envied, Cecil launched seventy potatoes. Ten missed due to the panicked bus driver swerving his bus of death. Blood ran down the walkway. Cecil advanced to his last enemy - the driver!

“Who are you? Are you mad? What the hell are you? You got a chip on your shoulder?” challenged the driver, frowning and failing to hide his terror. The answer was a barrage of baby spuds, five hundred of them. Perspex shattered, plastic punctured, metal bent and the driver died. By psychic spud power the bus drove straight and level, a steady 30mph.

Cecil Eccleswaite the 3rd sat down on a flip down seat like a couch potato. I’ve done a terrific job on my step to take over the world, he evilly thought. Soon this planet will be mine! All mine and I’ll colonise it with more alien spuds, then take over the universe...

***

The number 13 bus pulled into Bury bus station. No one dismounted. Everyone was dead except Cecil. He reminisced of HIS moment. That time he was abducted by mauve aliens in a potato shaped UFO. A voice droned on: “Oh they took me. And experimented on me in twenty six ways. Oh how I enjoyed their strange technology and sense of humour. I’m my own person now. But most of all I love the gift they gave me. Look at the beauty of it. Look at it!”

Around Cecil, a sea of death oozed, dripped, congealed. The only person dismounting the bus was Cecil...

***

The Saturday shopping day in Bury was busy. A European market, full of damn foreigners. Cecil hated them. It made him boiling mad. Especially the French. He spied a Frenchman. “Hey you! Your potatoes are crap! Not like mine. Mine are the best, finest taters in the universe!”

The small Napoleon sized Frenchie ran round his stall, goaded on by Cecil. He carried a fake French stick with a steel cosh inside. With surprising agility the man swung his tool. And missed! In bemusement he looked around.

“Behind you big man! There you go Mr French Fry,” Cecil whispered. A barrage of potatoes obliterated the French market trader. His body was broken.

“I’m the potato chucker and it’s spud time! Spud time! Spud time! Spud time!”

People ran around in terror! Most thought it was a joke by the EDL till an English trader had his head removed by a large spud. His headless corpse ran about, blood shooting from his neck. An eerie call echoed over the market. “Spud time! Spud time! Spud time!”

Cecil’s spud throwing exceeded ten thousand medium sized potatoes a minute. He threw them rapid rate. Broken bodies stacked up like severed limbs on the battlefield. In three minutes over two hundred people were dead. Sixteen nationalities, male and female, young and old.

“I’m the man! I’m Cecil Eccleswaite the 3rd and I’m the spud thrower. Spud time! Spud time! Spud time!”

He moved to the shopping centre. More carnage. Some shoppers had glimpsed the market horrors and ran for their lives. Then stopped. Cecil stood at the main entrance, a black menacing shadow against the high summer sun. CCTV recorded his every move. A code blue call had been issued. The Marines were coming! They weren’t happy, having to leave their half eaten chippy tea.

Taking a step forward Cecil opened fire. A torrent of spuds cut forth. He knew the soldiers were coming! His next three minutes were well spent. Aim, fire, aim, fire. On all three levels of the shopping centre, in a hundred and eighty nine shops it was the same story - death! Cecil murdered over three thousand people, everyone inside the Wheatsheath shopping centre. Task completed, he emerged at the far exit.

“Job well done!” he muttered. Suddenly Cecil heard a faint roar and shouted orders. The Royal Marines were here. Before battle commended Cecil had one last job to do. Wipe out all the other chippies, shops, businesses, houses and factories in Bury. Holding out his hands before him, Cecil opened fire. It was ferocious and out of this world - half a million mauve spuds shot out of his hands in a treacherous stream. Individual spuds were invisible, it was a river. Upwards and out it went, to seek out and destroy people wherever they were. Hiding or being indoors would do no good - these were hunter killer tomatoes! Half a million people would soon die.

***

“Open fire! All weapons, rapid fire! Now!” came the command. It was high pitched and belonged to a big Marine, a yank, embedded within the British Marines. His unit opened fire with all manner of weapons: 5.56mm SA80s, SAWs and M-16s; Heckler and Koch 9mm; Browning 12.7mm sniper rifles and M3 heavy machine guns; Javelin missiles, bazookas, 81mm mortars, 105mm howitzers and potato shaped hand grenades.

Cecil was hit six thousand times and stood his ground. Every single bit of ordnance bounced off him. He grinned and commented, “That your best shot lads? Keep your eyes peeled and you might kill me.”

“Re-load and open fire!” came the reply, the Texan accent strangely odd in middle Lancashire.

“Fuck you yank! Spud time! Spud time!” roared Cecil. His potato fire mostly silenced the second bout of Marine fire. He held his hands outwards and arced them upwards. Ten thousand spuds whooshed heavenwards, to fall upon the distant howitzer guns and nearer mortar crews. A single swipe silenced the Marine’s remaining small arm fire. Bloody and broken mashed up bodies showed a brave and futile defence. Bury was fucked. Or was it?

“I’m Cecil Eccleswaite the 3rd. Soon this whole planet will be mine. I’ll kill you all by potato fire. What a scoop that’ll be.”

A single gunshot echoed forth. Gonk, a small fry eight stone Marine, had sniped Cecil ever since CCTV had picked up the market attack. The 50 cal Raufoss mixed use bullet blew Cecil’s fucking head clean off! Armour piercing, incendiary and high explosive splintered his alien induced brain, like a masher mashing spuds. Only his standing body remained, looking like a battered chip.

“Don’t fuck with the Marines! One shot, one kill. That’s a scoop. Happy days!” smiled Gonk. With difficulty he shouldered his Barrett rifle. It was as long as he was tall and a challenge to lift. “Happy days indeed.”

Jumping off his rooftop onto a car roof, Gonk fell through the glass sunroof, before emerging at street level from the Lada Riva estate. “Fuck a duck! Works in the movies.”

***

Cecil remained in position, headless and still. Gonk advanced upon his enemy, rifle ready. But Gonk wasn’t ready for what happened next. In an alien movement, controlled from afar, Cecil’s tweed trousers fell to the floor. He wore no underwear.

“You gotta be shitting me! He’s got no cock. It’s a... potato stump!” Gonk gasped.

Cecil’s potato stump was indeed that, a potato stump, implanted by aliens back in 1986. He gyrated his hips and fired a potato, mauve in colour. Gonk fired his rifle. And missed! Gonk never missed. Till now. The spud removed the Marine’s head and Gonk fell down dead.

Cecil grew a new head! A potato sprouted forth. And his body rapidly changed, turning into a large spud.

“Now I’m Mr Potato Head! A real hot potato!” he shouted.

Suddenly Gonk stood up. He was a spud too! “You are my Spud Gun Soldier!”

“What the fuck have you done to me?” Gonk, now renamed Spud Gun Soldier, asked in shock. Looking down at himself, with his new head, a potato, Spud Gun Soldier tried to pick up his gun.

“Oh no, my dear Spud Gun Soldier, you won’t need that useless toy now. You’re like me, a potato killer. An alien. You kill by shooting potatoes at people from your hands. The same way I do,” Cecil, now called Mr Potato Head, explained. He looked like Humpty Dumpty.

Spud Gun Soldier tried to shoot a spud at Mr Potato Head to kill him. A small baby blue spud emerged from his hand and fell to the ground. “What the fuck?”

“You’re my slave. Together we shall conquer the world and kill everyone by potato violence. Prepare to go to war!”

“Hooya potato death! Gimme some more chips!” screamed Spud Gun Soldier.

“One potato, two potato, three potato, four...” sang Mr Potato Head...

Soon the world would be theirs and then alien potato heads would invade.

Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Juniper’s Daughter: War Is Obsolete – Futility and Hope Nick Armbrister

Juniper’s Daughter: War Is Obsolete – Futility and Hope

Nick Armbrister



https://www.amazon.com/Junipers-Daughter-Obsolete-Futility-Hope/dp/1445702355

Sleeping Monster – Juniper’s Daughter In Trouble 

   She was in trouble and running for her life through the forest. She was mortal now, so human and frail, fragile as a spring flower under threat from an immense frost. The frost dragon was chasing Juniper’s Daughter through the forest, a night terror threatening to suck the very lifeblood from the witch. A slow horrible awful human death with no rebirth, she made a pact with her number one enemy, Satan, and bargained her soul away for a mere mortal man. To save him from the gallows. To save his life so she could be with him for one short human lifetime, together.                      

 

   Her Mother Juniper had gone crazy and tried to kill her daughter with lightning from the sky and small meteors from space. Slightly wounded and very scared, the former witch knew her Mother had failed. The woman who was once Juniper’s Daughter lived and ran for her life. Her Mother abandoned her only child who had cast her lot in with the Devil. For the sake of a mere mortal man condemned to death for stealing a chicken, such was the way in medieval Saxony. Would my Mother really kill me, wondered the panicked girl? Would she?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

   The ice dragon made another pass, sending freezing air and ice thundering down into the trees, missing the vulnerable girl by yards. Soon she would be hit, this she knew. A bad predicament. Events from before led to this moment. How could she forget them?

***

 

    A storm appeared before the man could be hung. Torrential rain flooded the town square forcing the executioner and population to flee to higher ground, leaving the thief on the gallows. Juniper’s Daughter caused the storm to save her love; against her Mother’s wishes. The man wasn’t innocent. He was a criminal with a dark past of black arts and murder. Crimes he got away with due to Satan backing him. He thought the theft of a single thin chicken to feed his starving stomach would go unpunished and noticed, for the first time in his life he was wrong. Satan was about to cause an earthquake to topple the gallows and free the man but something stopped him seconds before the ground shook. A freak storm not of his doing – Juniper’s Daughter was here!

 

   Clouds coiled in the blue sky darkening it, rain fell down in torrents drenching the crowd who wanted to see a hanging, good medieval entertainment. With the man now free and in the arms of the witch, Satan flung a lightning bolt down, hitting the witch and badly burning her. She was on the edge of death, with the former captive holding her head in his hands, enemy and witch crazily brought together in a surreal situation.

 

   He cried for the first time in his life. Never shedding a tear for the hundreds of innocents he had slain before, now he did for the witch who had freed him. She was his mortal enemy; he was allied with the Devil and darkness. All they stood for made the evil man feel alive. Now something had occurred. A freak happening, he should have killed the witch, burned down the village and killed its inhabitants but he didn’t. When the fire struck the witch, almost killing her, the evil man screamed, “Master, oh mighty Satan please don’t kill the witch! She freed me! If it wasn’t for her, I would be dead. Save her Master!”

 

   “My slave, you have worked with my enemy and betrayed me. You deserve to die like she does, by letting her free you give her power over you and against me! No, she must die! You have one last chance slave to be totally subjugated to me, if not I’ll burn you down along with your new friend! You must finish off Juniper’s Daughter. Kill her with your own bare hands. One more murder won’t make a difference. Then I’ll forgive you and forget about this little episode. Hurry now!” thundered a voice from the heavens, full of ominous hostility and hidden violence.

 

   “I am still evil and still work for you, you know that! How can you doubt me? Look into my mind and soul. I let the witch free me for you! But I do love her and she can work for us. Ask her before you kill her, I refuse to murder her. She helped me and didn’t hurt me,” feebly replied the criminal to the dark rain laden clouds. His voice was barely heard over the pouring rainstorm.

 

   “Yes I know you work for me, think it over what I said!” bellowed the Devil from up above, making the ground shake.

 

   “But…” stammered the mortal man.

 

   “Let him kill me then Satan! I’m as good as dead already!”  the witch announced, coming round after being hit by the lightning bolt fired by her enemy.

 

   “Yes my dear but I’ve changed my mind!” replied Old Nick.

 

   “What do you mean? What tricks and games are you playing with us now?”  screamed the condemned man, rage filling his puny body.

 

   “Don’t listen to him! He does this all the time, the bastard!” shouted the witch, looking up at a black cloud. She was sure now the Devil controlled those same clouds that she had cast upon the village to keep all witnesses away. She couldn’t think clearly due to the intense pain of her wounds.

 

   “Be quiet witch!” said the Devil, firing another shot of lightning a metre from her head; the wet grass hissed and burst into flame. Juniper’s Daughter struggled to move from the flames with great difficulty.

 

   “Stop this mischief!” shouted the man raising his fist to the sky

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   “Help me, I’m in great pain. He’s right, I’m finished. Kill me and put me out of my misery,” begged the witch, her life slowly leaving her.

 

   “Juniper’s Daughter, I will heal you and let you live!” whispered Satan. Was this more trickery? “On one condition and one alone. Do you want to hear my proposal?”

 

   “What is it? You only lie and cause pain and suffering, how can you heal?”

 

   “Listen witch. If you make a pact with me and become human and not immortal, giving up your witchcraft, talents and right of immortal life, I will spare you’re life and that of you’re lover. I promise to let you both live together, in peace. I will also free your lover from his dark debt to me. Do we have a deal?” beckoned the Devil playing his hand. Silence descended on the rainy village, water threatened the injured witch and her new friend. They had to move or soon be washed away.

 

   “What are you going to do?” whispered the man looking into Juniper’s Daughter’s blue summer eyes. His façade of evil momentarily dropped and she knew she loved him, that they were soulmates. She nodded and painfully smiled.

 

   “I accept your offer! I will do whatever is necessary to be with my love. Even betray my magical path, my Mother and myself. I accept your offer!” the witch humbly replied, head bowed in defeat. This was one fight she had lost but gained a small victory – saving her lover. Now they could be together.

 

   “Okay nice to hear. Now I will heal you from your wounds and strip you of your power and immortality,” came the reply from the black clouds. Suddenly a huge white light filled the heavens; the witch thought it was her Mother intervening. It wasn’t. It was Satan healing the witch and taking every bit of her magical powers. When the bright light faded, the dark clouds were gone and the sky was a cloudless blue like her eyes and the former witch was normal. Just a mere girl. A young woman with her new love, a man who previously worked for the Devil committing evil acts.

 

   She stood up and embraced her love, kissing him. He returned it. On hearing distant voices from over the hill, the couple ran to the tree line away from the water filled village square to escape the returning villagers.

 

   “Why did you do that? Agree to what he wanted? Are you mad?” asked the man, with a shocked expression, to the lady before him.

 

   She looked at him and took a minute to answer: “My dear, when you love someone enough and you want to save them and it’s reciprocated, you will do anything for them. Including changing your way of life like I just did.”

 

   “I think I understand. You mean you did all of that just for me? Hell. You must love me as I do you!” stammered the man, reaching out to take the blond woman’s hand and kissing her.

 

   “Yes I did all that for you, just as you would have for me. Let’s hope Satan keeps his word, eh?”

 

   “Aye. Thank you my love but you know what people say about making a pact with the Devil. Anyhow, now is the start of our future together.”

 

   “Our future together, yes I like the sound of that. Tell me my love, what is your name?” asked the pretty lady who had endured so much.

 

   “My name… my name is Lee. He, Satan, gave me a name but I can’t remember it for some reason. Not that I want to,” Lee told her, kissing her again.

 

   “My name used to be Juniper’s Daughter until just then, my real name is Anna. When I was a witch I had no name, just Juniper’s Daughter. Now I’m Anna,” Anna, formerly known as Juniper’s Daughter announced. Like falling leaves, Anna’s past as the witch Juniper’s Daughter left her. She felt strangely vulnerable and well… human.

 

   “I feel alive and in love my dear Anna! No darkness or evil. How do you feel?”

   “Oh Lee my love I feel so alive, very vulnerable and so human! I’m so happy and in love with you!”

 

   “Let’s make love my dear. I want to make love to you right now. I want you so badly,” Lee commented, embracing his lady. Both lied down on the soft grass in the forest and made love. Now their union was complete. They were together in their hearts, minds and in one another’s arms.

 

  From very far away two exceedingly powerful beings thought and planned –Satan wove his little evil battle plans and Juniper, who was Juniper’s Daughter’s, now Anna’s mother, made plans to leave her heavenly spiritual realm to take up battle against her oldest enemy – the Devil. And when she was earthbound Juniper would have words with her daughter, Anna. Strong words! 

***

   Six hundred and sixty six days later after their pact, Anna ran through the forest trying to escape the ice dragon that had butchered her husband Lee and would soon swoop down upon her and bring her the same fate. Anna screamed and dodged an icy blast of super cold air and ice daggers that thundered into a huge tree, missing her by a metre. Next time the soaring beast wouldn’t miss. The tree line thinned out and a clearing opened out before the fleeing girl. The treetops gave good cover, why she was still alive. Now she was screwed and with nowhere to hide. The circling ice dragon would kill her at will. She accepted this and walked out into the clearing. Fuck it! Soon I’ll be with Lee and happy once again! If only I was still a witch, I could kill that dragon, sent by Satan, and bring Lee back to life. But I made a pact with the Devil and he gave us 666 days of happiness and then murdered my husband! At least we had that time together! Anna desperately thought. Walking out of the trees Anna became a clear target for the circling ice dragon, which swooped down upon her at two hundred miles per hour, its wings beating like a huge drum. Not long now…

 

   Something happened. The ice dragon never opened fire upon Anna. It crashed into the earth in a huge bang that shook the ground, sending up grass, bushes, earth and bits of ice dragon into the air. Anna ducked while debris rained down all around her. What the hell? Have my magical power come back now Lee’s gone?

 

   A voice came to her, crystal clear, one she had heard throughout forever and thought she wouldn’t ever hear again: “Anna, my dear Anna how are you? I’ve missed you so much. I’m here my dear!” Juniper, Anna’s mother, announced stepping from out of the trees.

 

   “Oh Mother, I’m so sorry for my betrayal of you and of my path. Please forgive me! Don’t kill me! Please don’t kill me!” cried Anna, breaking down to sob. She slowly walked over to her Mother and fell into her arms. In the middle of the clearing the ice dragon slowly melted away to nothing. Down in Hell the Devil screamed in rage, he would have his revenge! At least his former slave Lee was dead.

 

   “I forgive you my dear. And I would never harm you. I’m here to help you. I didn’t like your actions but you did it for love and that is the righteous path. What you gave up, your magical powers and your immortality, was a very humbling act of true unconditional love. For that I respect you. Myself, I could never be that strong,” consoled her Mother.

 

   “Thank you for forgiving me and not killing me. That ice dragon was sent by the Devil and killed my husband, I tried to help him. I was so powerless,” sobbed the girl.

 

   “Against an evil monster like that, even I’d have my hands full. I wouldn’t kill you, not out of revenge for your pact with the Devil before. Now tell me one thing. Do you want to be with your husband Lee? Do you?” asked Juniper to her daughter.

 

   “You know the answer, yes I want to be with him,” replied Anna. She knew what was coming.

 

   “Okay then, do you want me to make it so? I will send you to our spirit realm up above so you can be with your dear husband in spirit. Myself, I will take over here on earth and fight the Devil and his evil. Just say yes and I’ll send you painlessly over to the other side to be with your Lee,” Juniper offered, her deep green eyes showing compassion and love and something else, a determination to see the fight through. Her daughter never had this determination, though she was strong and very skilled, even now as a mortal.

 

   “Yes,” replied Anna. Juniper raised her hands and placed them on her daughter’s head. A blinding white light rose and blotted everything else out. Anna felt a huge rush and then nothing. Time ticked slowly by, it could have been a minute or a million years. When she opened her eyes Lee was before her, his spirit glowing white, true unconditional love emanated from him. Now Anna and Lee were finally together forever, as spirits… 


Tuesday, 21 July 2020

New Dawn 2971 Nick Armbrister and other authors/poets/writers

New Dawn 2971

Nick Armbrister and other authors/poets/writers


https://www.amazon.com/New-Dawn-2971-Nick-Armbrister-ebook/dp/B076123N3S/ref=sr_1_21?dchild=1&keywords=nick+armbrister&qid=1595354164&s=books&sr=1-21



Those Extra Sucks

I told my wife to suck my big black cock three times

The first time I watched her do it thru half closed eyes

The second time I fantasized of her curvy sister

And on the third I imagined her hot best friend

Three awesome fucking cock sucks

Each orgasm better than the first

Who will I think of if she does it four times?

 

 

 

Five?

England falls again

Five incidents of bloodshed

Over as many months

Spring and summer becoming winter

Three terrorist attacks by Muslims

Two involved cars and bridges

Knives were also a part in one

Another Muslim Extremist used a bomb

And White Van Man got even

Not to mention the tower block fire

It was an accident faulty fridge style

Wasn’t it?

 

 

 

Lacuna

When a downward spiral

Becomes an upward spiral

Where the fuck

Does this shit come from…

 

 

 

May Song
Maybe one day it will all be alright
Maybe one day I'll figure life out
Maybe one day I'll understand myself
Maybe one day life will give me its answers
Maybe one day I'll ask the right questions
Maybe one day I'll find out the reason why
Maybe one day all will be a dream
Maybe one day I'll start it all again

Maybe one day I simply forget what I am

Maybe one day I’ll ascend to the stars

Maybe one day I’ll be a computer program

With no feelings or fucking issues

 

 

 


Sunday, 19 July 2020

So Much To Do In Paradise

So Much To Do In Paradise

By Craig J. Burt/Jimmy Boom Semtex

Hey

You changed from worst to best

Woo

We both look sharp & let's give sweet life a test....


The day Hussain blew us up

Death ever so sweet

For we died together

Apart in real life

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not my work but a good but of reference and what if- The Effects of a Global Thermonuclear War

not my work but a good but of reference and what if-

The Effects of a Global Thermonuclear War
4th edition: escalation in 1988
by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 18 August 2003

INTRODUCTION: The following is an approximate description of the effects of a global nuclear war. For the purposes of illustration it is assumed that a war resulted in mid-1988 from military conflict between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. This is in some ways a worst-case scenario (total numbers of strategic warheads deployed by the superpowers peaked about this time; the scenario implies a greater level of military readiness; and impact on global climate and crop yields are greatest for a war in August). Some details, such as the time of attack, the events leading to war, and the winds affecting fallout patterns, are only meant to be illustrative. This applies also to the global geopolitical aftermath, which represents the author's efforts at intelligent speculation.

There is much public misconception concerning the physical effects of nuclear war--some of it motivated by politics. Certainly the predictions described here are uncertain: for example, casualty figures in the U.S. are accurate perhaps to within 30% for the first few days, but the number of survivors in the U.S. after one year could differ from these figures by as much as a factor of four. Nonetheless, there is no reasonable basis for expecting results radically different from this description--for example, there is no scientific basis for expecting the extinction of the human species. Note that the most severe predictions concerning nuclear winter have now been evaluated and discounted by most of the scientific community.

Sources supplying the basis for this description include the U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency manual on nuclear weapon effects, scientific papers describing computer simulations of long-term effects published by groups ranging from the U.S. government to left-leaning scientific organizations, and research by a similar variety of groups on weapons characteristics and strategy.

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1 July 1988: Gorbachev is killed when his plane is attacked by a Stinger surface-to-air missile in East Germany; military heads take control in Moscow, accuse the CIA of responsibility for the assassination, impose a news blackout in the U.S.S.R., and send troops to East Germany and Poland to impose martial law.

15 July 1988: West Germans propose intervention in East Germany following reports of violence there; clashes occur along the border between the two Germanys; NATO puts its forces in West Germany on alert.

19 July 1988: A massive Soviet invasion of West Germany begins: NATO airfields are attacked by missiles with chemical warheads as tanks pour across the border. U.S. nuclear forces are put on alert: Bergstrom Air Force Base (AFB) near Austin receives 4 B-52 bombers dispersed from their home base.

31 July 1988: With Soviet forces 200 kilometers (km) (120 miles) inside northern West Germany, NATO issues a vague ultimatum to the U.S.S.R.

1 August 1988: NATO nuclear weapon depots are attacked by conventional and chemical weapons; ongoing naval combat claims a Soviet ballistic missile submarine in the Arctic Ocean.

4 August 1988: NATO threatens the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Soviet forces advancing towards urban areas in western West Germany.

6:00 AM CDT 5 August 1988: Soviet attacks begin against U.S. military satellites: two ground-based laser facilities are used to disable intelligence satellites in low Earth orbit and damage or harass sensors on those in higher orbits. "Killer" satellites are launched and will reach target satellites over the next few hours. Some of the Soviet civilian population is being moved to bomb shelters, subway tunnels, and out of cities. In West Germany invading Soviet forces launch some tactical nuclear weapons against NATO forces.

10:00 AM CDT 5 August 1988: NATO forces begin launching tactical nuclear weapons against Soviet forces in West Germany and bases in East Germany. North Korea invades South Korea while launching chemical weapon strikes against U.S. and South Korean forces.

12:00 noon CDT 5 August 1988: Nuclear hostilities on a global scale begin as the U.S.S.R. launches a preemptive strike. Over 1,000 Soviet missiles--carrying 5,400 warheads--are launched as a counterforce strike against the U.S. and its NATO allies.

Current population figures are: Rio Grande Valley--690,000; Travis County--550,000; Texas--16,800,000; the United States--245,000,000; the world--5,150,000,000.

12:05 PM CDT: Nuclear weapons are detonated aboard several Soviet satellites in low Earth orbit over the U.S. and other areas, generating electromagnetic pulses (EMP). This devastates electronics in these areas. Most unhardened computers and related equipment are rendered useless, destroying communication, information, and power supply networks on a nationwide scale. Transportation vehicles using electronics are inoperable. Many satellites are disabled. While few human casualties have occurred so far, much of the civilian elements of a continent-spanning society are devastated. For most American civilians this is the only warning of the coming attack they will receive: no effective civil defense program exists.

U.S. strategic bombers begin leaving their bases. This includes 25 B-52s and 5 B-1Bs in Texas, with four of these B-52s leaving Bergstrom AFB near Austin. These 30 bombers are carrying 400 nuclear bombs and missiles.

12:10 PM CDT: NATO missiles in Europe (U.S., British, and French weapons) are launched against Warsaw Pact targets. This includes U.S. Pershing II and Gryphon missiles, most of which were not yet retired under the INF treaty.

Soviet submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) warheads begin reaching targets in Texas and other parts of the U.S. Over the next 15 minutes 55 SLBM warheads succeed in reaching targets in Texas out of 74 launched (the rest were on missiles that malfunctioned early in flight). In Travis County, a 1.5-megaton (1 mt equals the explosive energy of 1,000,000 tons of TNT) warhead detonates 2.5 km (1.5 miles) over Bergstrom AFB. Over the next few minutes ten warheads, each between 200 kilotons and 500 kilotons (1,000 kt equals 1 mt) detonate over Bergstrom and in a pattern extending 100 km (60 miles) to the north, west, and east--this in an attempt to destroy the four escaping bombers.

Each explosion produces a fireball which radiates intense light (flash) for about 10 seconds: all exposed combustible material ignites up to ranges of 3 to 9 km (2 to 5.5 miles); second degree burns to exposed skin and fires are produced up to 6.5 to 18.5 km (4 to 11.5 miles) away. The atmospheric shock wave (blast) from each explosion causes partial or complete destruction of all buildings within 1.5 to 4.5 km (1 to 3 miles) and causes moderate damage and 50% injuries or deaths at 5.5 to 15 km (3.5 to 9.5 miles) in the 10 to 40 seconds following detonation. (These figures represent the variation among 200-kt to 1.5-mt warheads exploded in the air or on the ground.) Severe damage and fires result in much of Austin.

Immediate nuclear radiation from the weapons being used is generally absorbed by the atmosphere before it reaches people surviving the flash and blast. (This radiation is only important with small nuclear weapons such as the bombs dropped on Japan in World War II or the tactical nuclear weapons being used in Europe. Delayed radiation from fallout is a different matter, however.)

12:15 PM CDT: The U.S. launches intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) against the U.S.S.R. These are launched from underground silos in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, and Missouri. Some SLBMs are launched at this time as well.

12:25 PM CDT: The U.S.S.R. launches most remaining nuclear forces, attacking cities and other targets in the U.S. and Western Europe as well as mainland China.

Antiballistic missiles (ABMs) with nuclear warheads are being launched to defend Moscow from incoming warheads. Throughout the U.S.S.R. several types of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) are also being used against incoming nuclear warheads--occasionally with success.

12:30 PM CDT: Soviet ICBM warheads begin reaching U.S. targets. NORAD headquarters near Colorado Springs receives a few 20-mt warheads: the ground shock produced by each one attains 7.3 on the Richter scale. U.S. submarines begin launching SLBMs against the U.S.S.R. In Texas, 80,000 people have already died.

Altogether, over 1,000 tons of debris from Soviet ballistic missiles will fall over the U.S.; much will burn up in the atmosphere, but some larger objects will hit the ground with energy equivalent to their own weight in TNT.

12:35 PM CDT: Another wave of Soviet warheads arrives in Texas: 45 of the 53 ICBM warheads targeted in Texas actually detonate successfully. In Travis County, a 550-kt warhead detonates on the ground at the former site of Bergstrom AFB, adding to the devastation in Austin. In the Rio Grande Valley, a 550-kt warhead detonates on the ground at the Raymondville Coast Guard station and a second one two minutes later; Raymondville is destroyed.

With Soviet warheads minutes away, Israel launches nuclear missiles and nuclear-armed aircraft against capitals and military targets of most other Middle Eastern nations.

12:50 PM CDT: A massive barrage by U.S. SLBMs mostly overwhelms the Moscow ABM system; American, British, French, and Chinese nuclear warheads targeted within 100 km (60 miles) of Moscow total over 500. About 200 reach their targets (although only about 40 were lost to ABMs): while most Soviet leaders in underground shelters survive (the primary goal of the local ABM system), most civilians in the subway tunnels and other shelters will die over the next few hours.

The Moscow area ranks with the six ICBM fields in the U.S. as the hardest hit areas of the world. An average of 350 warheads detonate in each ICBM field, each producing a crater 350 m (400 yards) across; a total of 100,000 sq. km (40,000 sq. mi.) is devoid of life. Out of 1,000 ICBM silos, 100 still had ICBMs; now six are left usable.

The nuclear weapons that have reached Texas so far were directed against U.S. military forces and capabilities. Although this attack did not specifically target the civilian population, it has so far killed 800,000 and injured 3,000,000 people in Texas.

1:00 PM CDT 5 August: A third strike reaches Texas, with 146 warheads launched. Two 750-kt warheads detonate over Austin. In the Rio Grande Valley, a 1.1-mt warhead detonates over Brownsville, three 350-kt warheads detonate around McAllen, and 550-kt warheads are groundburst in Harlingen and at Cameron County Airport. Massive fires and severe blast damage occur throughout all of these metropolitan areas.

This concludes most of the nuclear war in Texas: 273 warheads were fired at 233 targets, and 215 detonated successfully, with a total yield of 128 megatons (about 40 times the explosive force of all conventional bombs and shells used in World War II). In addition, about 5 off-course warheads struck randomly in Texas. At this point 3,500,000 Texans have been killed.

2:00 PM CDT: About 5% of the land area in Texas is burning. In a few areas conditions permit firestorms to develop. In contrast to the World War II atomic bombings in Japan, continuous fire areas sometimes cover hundreds of square km (or sq. mi.), preventing survivors from escaping. Fires cover about 700,000 sq. km (270,000 sq. mi.) in the United States, 250,000 sq. km (100,000 sq. mi.) in the U.S.S.R. and 180,000 sq. km (70,000 sq. mi.) in Europe. Scattered or continuous fires rage across more than one-third of the area of several states, including North Dakota, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

3:00 PM CDT: Intense naval combat between U.S. and Soviet ships and submarines includes the use of tactical nuclear weapons. U.S. naval superiority has been offset by Soviet naval nuclear superiority: U.S. ships are being destroyed by nuclear cruise missiles and nuclear torpedoes. By the end of the day the superpowers will have lost over 100 vessels altogether.

Since most major dams in the U.S. have been destroyed by nuclear explosions, flooding is progressing downstream from these reservoirs. Some rivers particularly affected are the Missouri, Colorado, and Tennessee Rivers.

5:00 PM CDT: The mushroom clouds from nuclear explosions have drifted 100 to 300 km (60 to 180 mi.) downwind, frequently forming the leading edge of large smoke plumes. In the darkness beneath these plumes, temperatures have dropped noticeably.

Vaporized soil and other material, mixed with radioactive bomb residues, settles to the ground in areas where mushroom clouds pass overhead: this is fallout. Immediately downwind of groundbursts, radiation from fallout may be severe enough for exposed persons to already suffer ill effects. The black rain occurring beneath many clouds is radioactive--sometimes enough to burn the skin after prolonged contact.

Smoke downwind of urban fires is also hazardous. The blasts and fires have consumed 70% of the world's industrial capacity. Toxic chemicals have been released in large amounts.

7:00 PM CDT: Soviet bombers are delivering weapons against U.S. cities and other targets, including high-yield bombs and long-range cruise missiles. None of these targets are in Texas, however. The largest individual weapons used in the war are a couple of 50-mt Soviet bombs dropped in China: craters 2 km (1.3 mi.) across are produced, and severe or moderate damage is produced in an area up to 100 km (60 miles) across.

NATO and Warsaw Pact tactical nuclear weapons are being used by the hundreds along the front in West Germany. Missiles and aircraft have been launched against most cities and military targets in Europe, and nuclear combat has degenerated to disorganized use of short-range systems, especially missiles and nuclear artillery shells. U.S. Green Berets are crossing enemy lines carrying the smallest nuclear weapons to be used: these atomic demolition munitions are used to destroy bridges and similar targets and have explosive yields as low as 10 tons of TNT equivalent (somewhat more than the truck bomb that destroyed the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983).

9:00 PM CDT: Some bombers from Texas are delivering their weapons to Soviet soil, having survived Soviet air defense forces (many using nuclear-tipped anti-aircraft missiles). About half of the weapons carried by Texas bombers actually reach their targets (amounting to 200 warheads with a total yield of 40 mt). Nearly all of these weapons have selectable explosive yields, and usually a yield much lower than the maximum option is used. Only ten of these bombers manage to reach friendly territory afterwards, and they are generally forced to make emergency landings: the U.S., for instance, has less than 100 surviving runways capable of handling B-52s.

12:00 midnight CDT 5/6 August 1988: The nuclear exchange is generally over. In the U.S. 5,800 warheads detonated totaling 3,900 mt. Soviet and NATO weapons successfully used in Europe numbered 3,300 (1,200 mt) (excluding tactical weapons). About 6,100 warheads (most of them American, but some Chinese, British, and French) exploded in the U.S.S.R. with a total yield of 1,900 mt. Mainland China (P.R.C.) received 900 (detonating) warheads (1,300 mt) from its northern neighbor. Other areas receiving at least a dozen warheads include Canada, North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Greenland, Puerto Rico, India, Israel, Australia, Guam, Cuba, Syria, and Egypt. Hundreds of other nuclear weapons have been used in naval combat, in troop combat in West Germany and along the U.S.S.R./P.R.C. border, and in defending the Soviet Union from nuclear attack. About 50% of the global strategic and theater nuclear arsenal has been used. About 10% was launched but did not
reach a target and 30% was destroyed on the ground. Altogether, World War III has involved the detonation of 18,000 warheads with a total yield of 8,500 mt. Including tactical weapons, there were 67,000 nuclear weapons in the world a day ago; now, there are 10,000 left.

In Texas 6,400,000 have been killed (38% of its original population). Of the 10,400,000 survivors, 3,000,000 have severe injuries and 2,000,000 have lesser injuries. In the Rio Grande Valley 340,000 have been killed (49%) and 90,000 injured (13%); in Travis County over 400,000 are dead (75%). In the U.S. about 110,000,000 people have died altogether, with the 135,000,000 survivors including 30,000,000 injured. In the U.S.S.R. about 40,000,000 have been killed out of a pre-war population of 285,000,000. Mainland China has had 100,000,000 killed out of a population of 1,090,000,000. Examples of other countries: United Kingdom, 20,000,000 killed (out of 57,000,000); Denmark, 2,700,000 killed (out of 5,100,000); Australia, 3,000,000 killed (out of 16,000,000). In Mexico over 3,000,000 have been killed, mostly in cities on the border with the U.S. Throughout the world about 400,000,000 have died.

9:00 AM CDT 6 August: Survivors in urban areas are having little success at finding medical help. For the United States as a whole, hospital beds in surviving hospitals total 80,000, while severe injuries total 20,000,000. About 9,000,000 people in the U.S. have severe burns on much of their bodies, while only 200 beds in burn care facilities survive in the country. Many remaining hospitals lack even emergency power, due to the EMP attacks. The vast number of injuries force doctors and nurses to try to ignore patients that cannot be saved or have non-life threatening injuries. Many survivors in urban areas are in the process of fleeing to neighboring areas in search of medical care and to escape fires; this puts them in the open, often exposed to fallout.

Midnight CDT 6/7 August: Israel is being attacked by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. About one-third of Israel's military forces survived the Soviet nuclear attack; they are now occasionally using nuclear artillery shells against attacking troops. Other Arab states are preparing to join the campaign.

The situation is tense between India and Pakistan: both nations have a handful of small atomic bombs, and India was attacked with Chinese nuclear weapons. Meanwhile civil war is developing in South Africa and various other nations.

Early 7 August: Deposition of fallout in Texas is generally over with, and 80% of the radiation that will result from this fallout has already been emitted. Fire-produced pollutants are noticeable throughout the state--including smoke, smog, and various hazardous chemicals--with urban areas still burning.

In those parts of Texas affected by fallout, radiation sickness is already evident in many survivors, including symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and skin burns. In a few small areas fallout has been severe enough to already have killed many of those exposed, by causing radiation damage to the central nervous system. Survivors are having difficulty dealing with injuries, lack of food and medical help, and emotional shock.

The U.S. government is essentially gone, as well as most state governments; only two state capital cities survive (the missiles targeted on them malfunctioned). The Rio Grande Valley is receiving refugees from Mexico--survivors of devastated areas seeking help.

10 August: The smoke clouds in the northern hemisphere are spreading to produce a band around the world covering the primary participating nations. Large amounts of particles in the atmosphere include 1,500 million tons of dust, 25 million tons of smoke from vegetation, and 80 million tons of smoke from cities and other manmade sources. This last type of smoke has the greatest impact: smoke from petroleum and petroleum products is particularly effective at absorbing sunlight. Altogether, about 0.4 cubic km (0.1 cu. mi.) of dust and smoke is in the stratosphere.

Typical sunlight levels in Texas are comparable to an overcast day; in some areas, smoke from large continuing fires reduces mid-day light levels to that of twilight. The average temperature in Texas is 22° C (72° F), compared to 29° C (85° F) a week ago.

12 August: About 90% of the radiation that will result from fallout in Texas has been emitted. The average radiation dose in Texas is about 500 rem; by comparison, a dose of 100 rem in less than a week causes radiation sickness in half of people exposed; 50% of people exposed to 450 rem in a short period will die within 30 days; and a dose of 1,500 rem will kill nearly all people exposed within 10 days. Persons who stayed indoors the whole week generally cut their dose by 70%; staying in designated areas of marked fallout shelters would reduce dosage by 99%.

For the entire U.S., the average dose in the open from fallout is 1,200 rem; by comparison the average for the Soviet Union is 150 rem. The difference comes from the larger average yield of Soviet weapons, the larger size of the Soviet Union, the frequently "dirtier" nature of Soviet weapons, and the fact that more Soviet warheads are exploded on the ground (increasing fallout). For Europe the average dose in the open is 500 rem. This fallout is of course unevenly distributed: in the U.S. the dose exceeds 1,800 rem in about 8% of the land area, and the dose exceeds 500 rem in about 1% of the U.S.S.R.

In most of the areas affected by fallout, radiation is diminished sufficiently to be of little concern to people there. However, areas downwind of nuclear strikes on nuclear power plants are still dangerous--in some locations 100 km (60 mi.) downwind of such strikes, radiation levels are high enough to kill in 2 days. Radiation levels are still high enough to cause sickness from 2-days' exposure in areas up to 500 km (300 mi) downwind of the ICBM fields.

Delayed fallout is being deposited throughout the northern hemisphere: this is from radioactive material launched into the stratosphere, falling over a larger area for months to come. The health effect from this, however, will not be noticeable against the background of other problems.

20 August: In the northern hemisphere, smoke in the lower atmosphere is subsiding (although smoke in the upper atmosphere still absorbs much sunlight). Unusual weather includes windy conditions in some coastal areas. Fog has developed over the oceans and smog envelops the interior of North America and Eurasia. Fallout from the northern hemisphere is now reaching the southern hemisphere. Radiation levels there will peak at ten times the natural background levels--this will not pose a health risk, but it produces fear in many countries.

Many persons suffering radiation sickness are now showing additional symptoms: hair loss and leukopenia. (Those that survive to the end of the year will regrow their hair.)

Combat continues in central Europe, mostly without tactical nuclear weapons. The position of the front is little changed, with forces on either side unable or unwilling to budge.

25 August: The ozone layer has been cut in half over the northern midlatitudes. In spite of this, nearly all of the Earth's surface is receiving less solar ultraviolet radiation than before the war: smoke in the northern hemisphere blocks most sunlight, and as this smoke was initially injected into the atmosphere much ozone was displaced into the southern hemisphere. This situation will change.

Disorganized forces from Iraq, Iran, and Libya are beginning to join the Arab battle against Israel. North Korean forces have overrun many remaining cities in South Korea. Civil war has developed throughout China: with much of the government and military wiped out by Soviet nuclear attack, surviving communist forces are under attack and ethnic conflicts are developing. Tibet has declared independence. Ethnic conflict is also breaking out among surviving populations in some parts of the Soviet Union and Europe.

Naval combat between NATO and Soviet vessels has slackened. Before the war the U.S. had fifteen aircraft carriers; three were destroyed in port on the first day and five more have been destroyed by Soviet naval nuclear weapons. A number of submarines survive with ballistic or cruise missiles.

Hardly any satellites in Earth orbit are functioning. EMP bursts disabled most civilian satellites. Debris from anti-satellite attacks is dispersing and striking more satellites, while particle radiation from nuclear explosions above the atmosphere is trapped in the Earth's magnetic field, making near-Earth space lethal to men and satellites for months or years to come.

1 September: Light levels and temperatures in the northern hemisphere have reached their lows. Temperatures in the lower stratosphere (an altitude of 10 km/6 mi., where most atmospheric smoke is) are around 15° C (50° F)--this is 40° C (70° F) warmer than normal. At the ground, temperatures vary little with altitude (mountains are sometimes warmer than adjacent lowlands), but they vary significantly with distance inland. The interiors of North America and Eurasia are on average 10° C (18° F) cooler than normal--corresponding to normal temperatures for October or November. In west and north Texas temperatures are around 17° C (62° F); near the coast it is nearer 22° C (72° F). In the midlatitudes of the northern hemisphere sunlight is 25% or less of normal--sometimes insufficient for net plant growth. This helps reduce the formation of hurricanes this season.

At this point 9,000,000 Texans and a total of 140,000,000 Americans have died.

Mid-September 1988: Epidemics are developing among surviving populations, particularly food poisoning, dysentery, and typhoid. Displaced populations, including many injured, are particularly affected; those with radiation sickness are particularly vulnerable, since radiation sickness involves damage to the immune system: susceptibility to disease for those is increased by a factor of 2 to 5. In some locations outbreaks of disease are a consequence of the use of biological weapons.

Early October 1988: Many crops are withering throughout the midlatitudes in the northern hemisphere. Sunlight, temperatures, and rainfall are all below normal; in many areas concentrations of ozone, smog, and other pollutants in the lower atmosphere are still high enough to afflict plants; and in restricted areas plants have suffered from fallout. This is particularly true in the American Midwest. About 200,000 se. km (80,000 sq. mi.) in the U.S. is still radioactive enough to cause radiation sickness after two weeks' exposure.

At this point about 580,000 have died in the Rio Grande Valley (84% of the original population) and 40,000 are injured (6%); of Travis County's pre-war population, only 50,000 survive (9%)--most of whom have fled to neighboring areas. About 2,000,000 have died from fallout in Texas now, bringing the death toll to 10,000,000. Of the 6,800,000 survivors, 2,000,000 are injured and 2,000,000 are suffering radiation sickness (these two groups overlap). A total of 160,000,000 Americans have died, or 65% of the pre-war population; in the Soviet Union 90,000,000 have died. The death toll in the United Kingdom is 30,000,000 and in Denmark is 3,300,000. World population is now 4,300,000,000.

November 1988: The ozone layer in the southern hemisphere is now 5% depleted. The effect of this will not be noticed, however, since it is less than natural variations.

December 1988: Crop failures throughout the third world have caused famines in many areas and have also encouraged civil unrest. India has collapsed into civil war. Having devastated Israel, Arab nations are in chaos: the Middle East was heavily dependent on the Western nations economically. Surviving Taiwanese forces are participating in the civil war in mainland China.

Some third world countries, particularly Latin American countries, are launching raids on U.S. coastal areas by sea. These military task forces scavenge and steal what they can find, from raw materials and food to equipment for industrial, military, and agricultural use. Surviving industrial facilities on the coasts, particularly the Pacific and Gulf coasts, are targeted. A couple of raiding parties have visited the Port of Brownsville's former location and surrounding areas but found little of interest.

In the United States, exposure is a serious problem; the only source of heating for most survivors is wood fires.

March 1989: Temperatures in the northern hemisphere are 4° C (2° F) below normal on average. This will shorten growing seasons and prolong agricultural disruptions. Before the war Japan was heavily dependent on food imports; now even fishing in neighboring waters is still unproductive. In Japan 30,000,000 starved to death this winter. Surviving Japanese military forces have waged attacks as far as Australia in search of food sources.

The Midwestern U.S., formerly where most of the nation's grain was produced, received the greatest share of the fallout from strikes on ICBM fields; about half the rural population in this area escaped immediate effects but was killed by fallout. With modern farming technology unavailable, farming this year will be subsistence farming.

The Mississippi River now reaches the Gulf of Mexico 300 km (200 mi.) west of its former mouth. Over the next few years much of former New Orleans will sink below sea level.

Some peat bogs in the northern Soviet Union ignited by the nuclear war are still slowly burning; some will continue to burn for a couple of years.

April 1989: Hundreds of thousands of Mexican refugees have come north hoping to find food. The population of the southwestern U.S. was relatively concentrated in urban areas; with these destroyed, Mexicans will soon represent a majority of the area's population. Violence often occurs when they encounter communities of survivors. Communities in the U.S. faring better than average include survivalist communities in the Northwest and Mormon communities in the Utah area.

May 1989: Radiation hazards from fallout-stricken areas continue to diminish. In the U.S. about 10,000 sq. km (4,000 sq. mi.) is still radioactive enough for two weeks' exposure to cause radiation sickness. Over 90% of this area was contaminated by fallout from strikes on nuclear reactors. This includes about 400 sq. km (150 sq. mi.) in Texas.

July 1989: Wildfires are recurring in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Fires especially sweep through the vast areas where fallout killed vegetation. This includes strips of land extending hundreds of km (or mi.) from strikes on nuclear reactor sites, often carrying radioactivity into the air again.

Since the war, natural processes have begun to restore the ozone layer. In the northern hemisphere the ozone layer is 40% depleted, although localized depletions have sometimes been worse. The resultant increase in ultraviolet radiation has reduced plant growth and crop yields and made it easier to get sunburn. In the southern hemisphere ozone depletion is still around 5%.

August 1989: Disease has ravaged the surviving population in the U.S. About 30% of survivors have been afflicted with one or more of the following: dysentery, food poisoning, viral gastroenteritis, typhoid, influenza, and pneumonia. These diseases have killed about 10,000,000 in the past year. Bubonic plague has broken out, killing nearly 1,000,000 so far and spreading to Mexico. Starvation is also a major cause of death: total food production in the U.S. in the past year was about 2% of that for the previous year.

Famines are occurring throughout the third world--not from nuclear winter but from the social and technological collapse of agriculture. Much of the third world supplemented its agricultural capacity with fertilizers, insecticides, and food imports from the West. Political chaos in many areas and disruption of supply networks has also disrupted production. Food production in the third world in 1989 will be below half that of 1987.

Surviving Americans now number 45,000,000, including 4,000,000 Texans. A few million surviving Americans are permanently sterile due to radiation exposure. World population is now 3,300,000,000.

August 1991: The Earth's atmosphere has been quite nearly purged of soot and dust. Slightly cooler conditions persist due to large amounts of nitrogen oxides in the upper atmosphere. The primary impact is slightly shorter growing seasons in northern areas.

Now that third world countries are recovering agriculturally and beginning to reduce famine, they are being stricken by epidemics. Bubonic plague has spread to Latin America and is appearing in Europe. Africa, which has been particularly ravaged by war and famine, is now seeing the spread of various diseases going unchecked by modern medicine.

December 1992: Depletion of the ozone layer in the northern hemisphere is now only 15%, which is less than natural variations before the war.

2000: China, now under nationalist government, is trying to retake Manchuria (which had declared independence after the war) and Mongolia. Other nations are sufficiently secure internally to launch invasions to acquire various resources.

2010: Some people exposed to fallout after the war are now dying of cancer; however, cancer as a cause of death among the survivors is minimal compared to other causes: disease, starvation, and exposure.

Chinese forces are operating in Southeast Asia, Japan, the Philippines, and particularly Siberia, where there is an influx of Chinese settlers.

2040: Some areas that received fallout from strikes on nuclear power plants and above-ground nuclear waste storage facilities are still uninhabitable and will remain so for some time to come. Genetic defects are found in as much as a few percent of the population born in the northern hemisphere after the war; however, most are not noticeable or are not handicapping. The more profound physical deficiencies are due to malnutrition. Some of the surviving nations have emerged by now as major powers, including Australia, New Zealand, China, Argentina, and Brazil.

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