By Raymond Lotta
The US in Decline: An research of the advancements in the direction of struggle and Revolution, within the U.S. and around the globe, within the Eighties
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Along the way I passed dead bodies and saw a red glare in the smoke-filled sky. But near my home, the houses seemed mostly unharmed. I let myself into my house with my latch-key. Then I closed, locked, and bolted the door. All I could think of were those striding, metal monsters and the dead bodies I’d seen. For a long time I crouched at the foot of my stairs with my back to the wall. My whole body was shivering hard. Finally, I went upstairs to my study. I began to wonder about the metal monsters I had seen.
Next in size were the bulky lungs, the heart, and the vessels. This was the sum of the Martian organs. They were heads—merely heads! They did not eat. Instead, they took the fresh, living blood of other creatures and shot it into their own veins. I cannot describe the horror of it. It is enough to say that the blood from a still living animal—in most cases, from a human being—ran through a bit 54 0-QX-War of Worlds-Final 09/6/06 8:12 PM Page 55 What We Saw from the Ruined House • 8 of tubing into the Martian’s body.
One man was moving along with the rest, selling papers as he ran. My brother thought it was an odd mixing of profit and panic. He bought a paper and read the words of the Commander-in-Chief: The Martians are using rockets to fire great clouds of a black and poisonous vapor into the air. It seems impossible to stop them. Beware! 44 0-QX-War of Worlds-Final 09/6/06 8:12 PM Page 45 London • 7 There is no safety from the black smoke. That was all—but it was enough. Most of London’s six million residents were on the run.