The Waste Land

The following is chapter fourteen in the novel, "The Beautiful World of the Alive," the first half of the series, "The Desert Road of Night."

Photo by V. E. Marés

November 20, 1983

Andrés was in bed and couldn’t sleep. Watching the made-for-TV movie The Day After scared him. It made Andrés aware of powers beyond his control that could wipe away his existence with the push of a button. It seemed like the world was ending soon. A truck bomb had exploded a month earlier at the U.S. Marine barracks…