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The Great Pause Week 6: The Green Child
"There passed long stretches of beautiful waterfront acreage with hanging Spanish moss, decaying mansions and docks, and no people." In the early spring of 2032, the two sailors cast lines and tacked into the wind, making for the Alabama coast some 550 miles distant. The principal passenger, the writer Albert Bates, had been holed up in the Yum Balam Protected Area since March, 2020. There he had escaped the ravages of the pandemic unharmed, despite his age and susceptible health, managing to survive on the traditional indigenous diet of his new home after the collapse of the Mexican political state ....