A Voice in the Stairwell
On August 14, 2003, Maria Gonzalez was climbing the stairs to her fourteenth-floor apartment in the Bronx when every light in the building went dark....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Genesis 1:1-3.
On August 14, 2003, Maria Gonzalez was climbing the stairs to her fourteenth-floor apartment in the Bronx when every light in the building went dark. Fifty million people across the northeastern United States lost power in an instant. The stairwell became absolute — no emergency lights, no glow from under doorways, nothing. She could not see her own hand in front of her face.…
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