One Disaster, Two Worlds
The border between normal and the apocalypse is sharper than you think.
4 min readSep 13, 2021
After we spent the afternoon helping clean up the Rockaways in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy — joining the hundreds of volunteers, not to mention enough National Guard troops to retake Baghdad — my friend Olivia said she’d give me a ride back to my apartment in Park Slope.