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The Year That the Buds Didn’t Come...

        The winter following a record breaking, triple digit planet scorching summer had been long and bleak. December came in with a series of nor’easters and flooding rains. Everyone was waterlogged and tired. But soon they knew the weather would improve, the days grow warmer and longer and spring would bring the buds again.

           But the thermometer plunged to record cold temperatures and snow storms brought the Sun Belt to a stop. Climate deniers took to their soapboxes and non-scientists flooded the airwaves with global warming conspiracy theories.

           In America a national police work stoppage was in its second week and crime was on the rise. Terrorists held a convention in Brussels to mark their calendars and co-ordinate their attacks in the fast approaching new year. Nazis, right-wing extremists and white supremacists wearing red caps and carrying tiki torches marched in several U.S. cities. But no one was concerned because they knew the buds would soon be on the way.

© 2020 Joseph E. Scalia from The Year That the Buds Didn’t Come...

A Tale for Pandemic Times

                                                    

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