the lion´s disease ( but it on Amazon!!!!!)
It occurred only years after the horrendous pandemic, the Covid19 , had paralyzed the entire world. The economy had been slowing down, and the disease – which we still do not understand completely - made many people face death, sorrow, hunger, and homelessness. In November of this year, Rattner & Rattner, the renowned and prosperous London Shipping Agency, hired me as an officer onboard the Punjab , a Handysize Geared Bulk Carrier. Minutes after being appointed an officer at a visit to the Staff Employment Office, I set out to find my ship from Emmet Street, where the office building was situated. I was on foot, in light rain and some wind in the dusky remains of the Tuesday afternoon, out for the vessel, which was an immense one, lying at anchor outside the Northwest Pier of London Outer Harbor. I had been hired in an extreme hurry due to a mishap on a red London bus on the morning of the ship´s departure; the ordinary 3rd Mate – a man whose name I forgot - unprovoked g...