a sea of lead, a sky of slate

"I didn't think it was possible for anyone to endure that level of pain without turning into a vegetable..." -Irukandji victim...

Vast thanks to ziggykorn1 for suggesting/ featuring me at reddit.com , waking up to 80,000 new hits on my unknown blog was just outrageously...

In 2006, a lone climber attempting the summit of Mount Everest for the third time was, purely by chance, caught in an amateur photograph tak...

In the aftermath of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history, when the severity of the fallout started dawning on Soviet officials, it ...

The ancient Zoroastrian tradition tells of how human flesh, once dead and decomposing, is so unclean it will pollute everything it touches. ...