The New Eden
8 min readJun 13, 2021
By Jessie Waddell.
“You can keep staring at it, Evangeline. It’s never going back to the way it was before.”
“Nathaniel, my dear friend, that kind of eternal optimism is why I’ve kept you around all these years….” I turned to face my friend with a smirk, and one eyebrow cocked so he could sense I was only half-teasing with my sarcasm.