As examined extensively in my book, AFTERMATH, (Broadway/Random House, July, 2010) more than 100 million Americans could be affected by this blackout for months or years.
Still, the number of abductions has declined in the past few years, which perhaps is why my reaction, in the aftermath of my shock, was surprise.
These are questions I seek to answer in my dissertation, "A Mind Prostrate": Opiate Addiction in the Civil War's Aftermath". My research benefited greatly from a History of Medicine Collections Travel Grant, awarded by the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Studies also connect Hurricane Sandy's extreme flooding with climate change -- I lived in lower Manhattan when it hit and had to decamp to my parents' house in the aftermath, as my apartment had become a 9-story walkup with no electricity for two weeks.
Their eerie pentatonic lament subsided, and in the vacancy of its vibratory aftermath my stomach dropped.
He kept marveling at its fury and aftermath: my friend's wine-splashed chin, her wine-soaked skirt, her wine-sopped entirety.
In the aftermath, my two older siblings and I were sent to live with our paternal grandmother, Mum Pearl, until shortly before her death in 1991.
Out in the intensely quiet street, I walked up the hill under the stars and felt for one of the few times in my life the aftermath of conviviality that pubs are supposed to exude.
In its aftermath my daughter and I found ourselves amid broken glass and cracked walls in our little apartment in North Hollywood, without water or electricity, as fires raged on Ventura Boulevard.
I saw the aftermath my sneakers had wrought all over his house.
