Beast A Haunted World

Was humanity cursed after 9/11?These are trying times for many people. Quality of life seems to be on an accelerating downward slide that began on September 11, 2001. It is as if an unknown hand were tracing downward strokes on a cosmic touchscreen.Some would say the hand would be divine. Others, demonic. Still, others would blame witchcraft and black magic. Environmentalists might define the hand as humanity's own. Scientists would rule themselves out and deny that any science could be mad. Not so fast, inventors might say. No one knows what innovations lie ahead or what unforeseen discoveries have not yet been made.Perhaps the guilty fingers are not fingers at all but the claws of a malevolent beast that haunts civilization and draws its power from a curse conjured from the bowels of the unknown.In this work of imagination, all things are possible.

-- D. L. Frazell