Parallels of Covid-19 and the Purge Plague The parallels of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Purge Plague are eerily similar. Granted, the Purge Plague is a fictional pandemic, conceptualized in my Mona Bendarova novels. The Purge Plague marked the beginning of the societal changes that shaped Mona’s community in ‘The Taste of Honey’ series. The…
Happy New Year 2020 To all my fans and readers of my books, Happy New Year 2020. I hope it is a good one for you and yours. Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? I’d love to know what they are. As for me, I don’t. There’s so much I want to do, I can’t…
Interview Snippets on Mona’s Stories (Part Four) What follows is the continuation of an interview I conducted with one of my readers. I captured their notes and turned it into this update to my blog. This is Interview Mona’s Stories part 4. Q: Speaking of the Doctor. Does he have a name? A: Of course he…
Interview Snippets on Mona’s Stories (Part Two) What follows is the continuation of an interview I conducted with one of my readers. I captured their notes and turned it into this update to my blog. This is Interview Mona’s Stories part 2. Q: Are you an activist, passionate about stopping the practice of genetically modifying organisms?…
Interview Snippets on Mona’s Stories (Part One) What follows is the continuation of an interview I conducted with one of my readers. I captured their notes and turned it into this update to my blog. This is Interview Mona’s Stories part 1. Q: Richard, as you talk about the Mona Bendarova books, it seems to me…
What’s on Tap Yesterday, Saturday, did in fact turn out fantastic. Except for my ongoing, continuous headache, I couldn’t be more pleased. I am trusting that today will be more of the same, regardless of the weather, sun and heat. Whatever it turns out to be, I’m ready for a glorious day. Perhaps I’ll go see…
Cultural Changes caused by The Purge Plague Over the last four segments, I wrote about the roots of the plague and the causal effects on Mona’s community. In this segment, I cover the cultural effects which resulted. It should be noted that while the plague was halted, it was not eradicated. Over centuries, people made many attempts to…
Physical Changes caused by The Purge Plague Besides high male mortality rates and a shift in a woman’s difficulty in carrying children, there were other changes to human physiology. The last-ditch gene splicing efforts manifested itself in significant physical changes to the human body. Woman tended to have longer legs, shorter torso, wider hips and fuller breasts….
The Purge Plague: Consequences Solving the human extinction event wasn’t without its consequences. Besides finding an alternate food source, other changes occurred. The new genome made significant changes to human physiology. Sickness had been wiped out. The common cold, cancer, infections, and the various maladies associated in pre-plague days were nonexistent. Within one hundred years, no…
Extinction – The Purge Plague initiates an unstoppable event Resolving the runaway genome infection among human populations was not without its perils. The plague had already caused the extinction of almost all life on the planet. While it was too late to save the other species, scientists at the time saved what they could. It became a…
