“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” - Hindu Scripture - J. Robert Oppenheimer

I had no plan, no future in mind but decay, which is of course the lifeblood of life on Earth, perhaps even the universe as you Homo Sapiens know it. Creation and destruction are merely shades within a scale, bleeding into each other. Perhaps there is a reason for that, but I have never been privy to that ...

If I tell you my side of the story you will think I am a superhero even in the wake of a city fallen. What could I even say? “I tried to stop it. They tricked me, they — they ruined me, now and forever.” I was the only one who could stop it, and I failed, but my failure is no excuse for what they did. I thought I was saving Mira, my child. They called me, saying they would kill her if I did not co...

It is not comfortable here. Not the sounds, nor the vibrations of the Earth that I feel crawl over my skin as I adjust to this new reality. To most people’s surprise, this is my first time here, and though it may be a road well traveled for many, it is a road less traveled for me (Robert Frost). This is a territory wholly unfamiliar to me, and in every way beyond what I thought to be possible, and...