Welcome to the Future Again

The earth is ringing like a bell— … still, four years after the quake that killed 230,000 people. Winds from heaven have come down to earth, shaken from the sky. They don’t know what to call them. At first they thought they were tornadoes, but no one saw a twister. It was just a current of wind knocked lower from the sky. Thailand has been cooler, since the tsunami. Seasons have changed. Days are just a thousandth of a second shorter; the earth’s rotation slowed by the quake. When the meteor hit Hudson Bay days were seven minutes shorter—the destruction relatively more. One thousandth of a second left 230,000 dead. Golem could only wonder what the energy dissipated as seven minutes did.