Loss of appetite, Fainting, Dehydration, Inflammation
Bleeding from mouth, nose, gums, rectum, Low red blood cell count
Hair loss
Journal Entry—Blue Rock Springs Medical CampPS three weeks
The entire Bay Area is flattened, almost completely destroyed. Few survivors, many of those dying of radiation sickness.
No radio. No TV.
No phones.
No outside contact. All gone.
But there is still the word.
And this is the new beginning: everything in this journal now dated Post Strike (PS).
My name is Jacob Zachary, and I was an English associate professor at UC Berkeley, teaching both World Lit and Creative Writing, composing a little fiction, but on a sabbatical mostly working on a non-fiction book in my specialty—humanism in literature. Not much demand for any of that now. But I can keep t
