“They came with no warning, or maybe they had been here all along. The sky went dark and the dust from construction sites billowed below like sprouting fungi to the lower levels of the cranes, bars, fancy restaurants and hollowed offices. The ancient swooping sound filled out hearts with an aching for somethin better, somethin real, something our parents talked about their parents dreaming about. Then it was gone, the sky went hazy and everything was anything but what it had been…”