When the World as We Knew It Ended

It was coming.

We had been watching since the eve of the missionaries in their longand solemn clothes, to see what would happen.


We saw itfrom the kitchen window over the sinkas we made coffee, cooked rice and potatoesenough for an army.

We saw it all, as we changed diapers and fedthe babies. We saw it,through the branches of the knowledgeable tree,through