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This story is beautifully realized and executed. It is concise and yet replete with detail. I am looking forward to being able to get a hard copy for the high school library I work in.
Great work.
Good grief. Don’t think I didn’t catch the irony [or, is that iron knee?] that one of ‘em was holding a box of water while standing thigh deep in Katrina deluge. And that bald dude is like a Hip-Hop Charlie Brown. Once again, Josh, you manage to bring levity to disaster which is probably the only way I could handle such devistation and horror. I think I might’ve stayed, too, to protect my goods and wares. Lil’ did they know. Impending doom never seemed so calm.
Kate, Thanks for the kind observations. We do anticipate a book publication of A.D., and it would be my fondest wish for it to be available in libraries all over, a document in its own way of the story of Hurricane Katrina.
Dino, Glad you dig Mansell’s Charlie Brown shirt. He needed a design down there, and that’s what came to mind (and pen).
About the flooding: it seems that depending on which part of the city you lived in, the water came incredibly fast or sneakingly snow. In Uptown, where Hamid’s store is located, the water rose inch by inch, hour by hour. But in the end, the damage it wrought was just as devastating. With this chapter, I’m really trying to capture that creeping horror.
Hey Y’all,
I just can’t believe I haven’ seen this story until now! It is incredible. I was there at Roberts’ too.
I posted today’s chapter onto the New Orleans News Ladder, after wondering if I should have started at the beginning, then figuring that your website can take care of bringing everyone up to date.
I just launched the NO News Ladder last week and hope to kick it out daily for Nola News what-nots & griad’gris.
Please check out the site and say hello. Let me know if you like it or don’t.
I was living there for the storm + 6 days before escaping to Baton Rouge in a pick-up truck with dog Flora, guitar, back pack and bicycle. As yet still a nolafugee on the back hand path, a long and winding road home.
Thank you,
Bruce Biles
editor
Bruce, Thanks for posting, and all the best with NOLA News Ladder. The more peeps keeping folks informed about the situation the better, y’know? Happy Thanksgiving, and best of luck on your winding road back home.
immaculate ch. 8 ending… bzzz…curious but worried
waiting for the flood
Mosquitoes!?! NOOOOOOOO!!!
This is an incredible piece of work, both artistically and in it’s immediate and visceral storytelling. I commend you for bringing this subject to the medium of the graphic novel, and doing it so well. I can’t wait to read the next chapter.
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All the stories are full of horror, terror and mystery. The best scary stories which will chill you to the spine.
Beautifully written
When is the UK and America 4 hours aside instead of 5? Was that this month?
The U.S. switched to Daylight Saving Time previously in March.
That makes the Eastern Period Zone 4 hours before Standard Amount
of time in the U.K. If so when the U.K. switches to Daylight Conserving Time (Summer
Time?) it’ll go back to a 5 hour difference.
How can I find happiness after he leaves me for another girl?
I feel like I’m braindead and at the same time feel all
the negative emotions, I don’t know what I’m feeling.
Help? You are feeling these negative emotions because you
base your worth on how others think of you, rather then who you really are.
Do you really want a guy who is into another girl? I wouldn’t.
I am too good for that, and that is the way you should think.
You have conflicting emotions because you are going through a very trying time.
You will make it through. Don’t give up, and be kind to yourself.
What is the number of the store when you attend woodlawn upon the #4 train? Gov’t is eliminating you with high regularity electricity.Theotokos Virgin Mary gave
prayers to “Schema-nun Antonia” on how best to save aborted infants from
hell. In the event that you pray these prayers diligently, aborted infants are released
from hell. On each painted nail there are 40 demons. Smoking can be censer to
the devil.Using foul vocabulary calls upon Pagan deities (aka demons); Holy Spirit departs on 7 meters.
People who use drugs see demons who cleverly disguise themselves as
ghosts and aliens.America will be last country to switch to Euro (antichrist’s world
foreign currency). Contraceptives = abortion;using contraceptives for 12 months = 5 aborted children.Miscarriages
happen because of high heel shoes; cesarean due to tight trousers (second
generation cesarean will be infertile).Unbaptized aborted/miscarried/unborn babies burn off in hell for until Final
Judgement; if pregnant, keep the kid and deliver in the home because
children are chipped using IVs and vaccines in hospitals.
Dentists and doctors chip patients secretly. Ultrasound prospective customers
to tag of the beast; don’t do ultrasound, make sure you. Abortion potential clients to breast malignancy;
a demon is released from hell for each aborted kid. Canines can become
possessed; don’t keep canines in the home [Pelageya of Ryazan].
Walmart provides technology to manage tag of the beast to those people who
have cat bacteria within their stomachs; avoid cats [Afanasiy Sidyachiy].
Next fake flag may be the Statue of Liberty. Above earth there is usually
ice (hemisphere); when rockets go up they bring ice down from top sky to lessen sky;
ice stuck in lower sky will fall on us during Apocalypse.
Earth is smooth; earth stands on 3 pillars (the The majority of Holy Trinity);
pillars stand on water at zero Kelvin; underneath this
ice there is a bubble; and then the abyss. Zodiac is definitely planetary prison of demons; don’t have confidence in horoscopes or
you’ll exhibit the characteristics of the trapped demons.
Many thoughts and dreams are from demons; demons never do good.
Rest completely clothed; pray the Jesus prayer.
Pray to your guardian angel to possess normal rest.
Vyacheslav Krasheninnikov was the last prophet before Apostle
John (who wrote the Book of Revelation), Enoch, Elijah, resurrected Seraphim of
Sarov, and resurrected Sergius of Radonezh will preach against the antichrist.
Human beings were created about 7525 years back.
Birds participate in period creation. It’s a sin to eliminate birds.
Dinosaurs live under our level; they’ll obtain out through sinkholes and
lakes; to kill them, go for their nerves. Conserve the birds;
but eliminate the dinosaurs. First dinosaur will come out of Volga River in Russia.
Researchers don’t discover dinosaurs under our level
because of radiation. Sinkholes happen because people dig for
resources underground and because earth is
warming up. Demons grow individual skin (from an example used during abduction) and wear it so as to appear
to be us. Demons will invite people to be healed of their UFOs; those that go
will end up like zombies after. Gov’t provides demons with diamonds and allows demons to abduct people.
If you’re being abducted, gradually pray the Jesus prayer.
Don’t panic. Demons use diamonds and souls to power their UFO craft.
The bigger the diamond, the more it lasts. Demons have 4 UFO bases: 1)moon 2)inside artificial mountain Kailash in Tibet 3)in lake
Baikal in Russia 4)in Atlantis which is within the Mariana Trench
in Pacific Sea. There are no aliens. Nobody lives on other planets.
Airplanes that decrease are hit by demons because they want the airspace to combat Jesus.
Antichrist is usually pale with reddish colored
eye. He’s possessed by Satan since he’s 12 years older [Lavrentiy Chernigovskiy].
He flies very fast; deceived people will say: “Christ is here now; Christ will there be” when he’s flying in one city to another extremely
fast. He wears gloves to cover up long fingernails.
He’s encircled by demons who appear as angels of light.
Antichrist will trick people that he can do mountain moving
and resurrection using holograms/hypnotherapy; fire from the sky is genuine due to pollution gases in the atmosphere.
Antichrist could have food limited to six months; then he will feed his 666ed people flour from mashed up turtles (Tavrion Batozskiy), but this will
not be enough because 666ed people are 10 times as angry and 7 times as
starving as normal people despite the fact that 666ed people became shorter (3-4 feet high
= 80 - 120 cm) because nanochips do function of organs
(organs diminish) [Nilus Myrrhgusher]. Should you
have a lot of nanochips in your forearm, then you will not be in a position to make correct Orthodox
sign of the cross (last mercy for you personally will be
to cut your forearm off). Nanochips are sprayed by the gov’t using chemtrails; they’re also in gov’t meals and medicine;
so, eat food from your garden. In case garden is usually destroyed by
ice from the sky, have hens for eggs and goats for milk (Paisios).
Lipstick contains cellular material of aborted fetuses, dog fat, and placenta; individual flesh can be in McDonalds, Pepsi, toothpaste, antiaging, anticancer, vaccines, perfume,
etc.; that is why you ought not be using whatever modern society provides.
You’re better off hiding within a 10-12 people group to be able to
escape Apocalypse. During Apocalypse, Chrtistians will consume dirt
from under pussywillowtree as it’s filled with
tears of Theotokos Virgin Mary; this water will flee if a 666ed person tries to get it.
Barcode is Druid dark magic curse; QRcode can be
Mayan curse; when meals is scanned, it becomes lifeless because
laser is a chemical from demons. Don’t go into a
UFO to end up being healed by demons. Green 666 is certainly given by isotope rays on wrist or forehead when people
stretch hands to receive small plastic material grey card without name onto it (World
Passport). It generally does not just have to be in this
procedure (could possibly be anything you join or
anywhere where there is a secret scanner); biometrics (fingerprints, eye scan) or getting picture
for passport are very dangerous because they could mark you secretly.
Gabriel Urgebadze stated that they perform it on index finger if they scan your finger.
Basically, stay away from new documents by any means. Police will microchip and isotope ray people on highways.
Chipped people will end up being influenced by computer systems to
consider grey plastic card; however when they perform,
green mark by isotope rays can be provided on forehead/wrist.
Food stores will isotope ray people as well.
Antichrist may also launch prisoners to tag people.
Reject 666 at all cost because it potential clients to permanent hell.
If you are about to become marked, pray the Jesus prayer.
Hide with Orthodox Christians to escape 666; leave all electronics behind so that
antichrist’s minions can’t track you; burn files because
they’re from Satan. The The majority of Holy Trinity gives you a name
during baptism; devil gives an antiname during antibaptism (ex.
Interpersonal Security Number). Individuals who
die with these Satanic documents go to concentration camp in hell to await Final Judgement; after the BEAST Pc
is burned down, souls will end up being released for Final
Judgement. That’s why you should give back paperwork of your deceased family
members back again to the gov’t so the gov’t cancels these digital
antichristian brands given during antibaptism by the
beast system; or just burn these documents because gov’t could
get upset and may send demons to indicate you for this reason outright take action of defiance.
Prophecy from half a millenium ago describes Final Judgement like this:
Jesus was very upset with individuals who had small boards (plastic-type cards) within their hands because they wanted price
cut from the antichrist. Give to charity in the name of Archangel Michael; he rescues folks from temporary
hell twice a 12 months [at midnight between September 18 and September 19 and similarly on November 20-21; pray at these times on your own knees remembering the deceased by brands (adding "and family members by flesh up to Adam") so they are rescued if they're in hell] (or brings them up a level, that is,
to an even with less punishment; eventually, folks are freed).
Feed the pigeons; when pigeons bow down, people are saved from short-term hell.
It’s a big sin to remember the lifeless with wreaths (because demons put these wreaths on their necks if they’re in hell with their hands tangled
up behind their back while hanging by their hands), meat, alcoholic
beverages, sweets, and worldly music. Demons printing
icons of saints in newspapers so you throw these newspapers in the trash blaspheming these saints.
Crosses on soles of sneakers and back of pants are blasphemy.
Demons make carpets with crosses and put them on sidewalks so that people walk on crosses.
Handmade cards mock how Jesus suffered on the cross:
clubs (cross on which Jesus was crucified), diamonds (four fingernails Jesus
was crucified with), hearts (sponge with vinegar that
Jesus was presented with to drink),spades (spear with which Jesus was pierced).Cremation is devil worship; only blasphemers such as Lenin should be burned;
if Lenin is buried, earth will end up being polluted, and
China will assault Russia due to this.After China attacks Russia, Ruski Orthodox Tsar (proven by
resurrected Seraphim of Sarov) will come to power in Russia;this Tsar will slay traitors inside church
and gov’t; consequently, Russia will be the only country not under the antichrist.Ecumenism = 263 heresies;each
heresy leads to hell. In 2006 in Moscow (that’s why Moscow will
sink),representatives from most religions signed a record where it says that all religions worship the same Supreme Getting [aka the devil].
Priests who take part in ecumenism could have Pagans
walking on the heads in hell. Arkhimandrite
Antonin Kapustin still left a prophecy that John the
Baptist’s liveable space will become a church and it’ll be
blessed by forerunner of antichrist; Patriarch Kirill of Russia blessed this
church.When priests pray for current gov’t (instead of praying for future
Tsar),Jesus gets up from His throne and turns His back to them.
Forgive me.
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Is it accurate people in NY are like robots?
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Can I fly to London with my 16 years outdated sister? I’m 23, and we are planning to spend
our next summer in London. My sister will be 16 after that.
Can she come with me? Does she require parents?
She’ll require parental consent, but she can go with you
provided that they agree (you may need this on paper)
What would you say if the job interviewer asks “inform me regarding yourself”?
easy going, communicates well, have high attention to detail and incredibly
well-organized. am able to satisfy deadlines and able to go the
excess mile to obtain things carried out. that’s what i focus on.
then if they ask about my personal life. i state i like sports, the cubs and bears specifically, exercising within my fitness
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but keep it brief and sweet. you don’t have to throw in unnecessary
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of who you are and if you will be an excellent fit for any office.
that is why they ask it.
Is it bad that I not only wrote, but published a Fifty Shades style
erotic romance novel involving me and my crush? I can give you
a hearty “Maybe!” Your crush has the right to protect
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I’ve written “real person” fiction about various crushes more than once,
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I suppose the love interest is always some aspect of myself,
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