The Waste Land
The following is chapter thirteen in the novel "The Desert Road of Night."
November 20, 1983
Andrés was in bed and couldn’t sleep. Watching the made-for-TV movie The Day After had 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 barr…
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