April 21: Dedicated to Authors

My socially solo 
squeaked-in-between-thunderstorms 
physically distant 30:12.59-minute walk today 

is dedicated to 

authors; book writers; novelists. 

Fiction writers, sci-fi writers, 

any wranglers of words that fire our imaginations. 

Hmmm...
Why am I am thinking particularly lately 

of such works as The Andromeda Strain and The Stand 

(Oh, god...remember it all started out with the superflu?) 

 

...
Why, indeed?