Status Updates From Lost Everything

"For their coming children are their hopes embodied, their faith made flesh, all that is ending is beginning again. For the world will not be fallen to their children. It will only be the world, new as they are. And perhaps if we tell them enough, they will see a way out, and know what to do."

"It took maybe seventy years. A growing beat of stronger and stronger storms, a long chain of hurricanes, until the walls gave way and the streets went under, buildings fell. Savannah. Atlantic City. A freak storm in Boston. A ragged swath carved out of New York."