CasualViolenceWithT

In Moscow, Ivan sits calmly with his president  and makes decisions on how to solve the horrid fires spreading across the wide nation. His head hurts and his skin burns, and it's only after he checks the date that he remembers to call. He gets no response. In Ottawa, Matthew speaks in hushed tones to discuss pulling his troops from the Kandahar Province, though he knows that today is really not the day to do such things; he too slips his cell phone (rarely used) out of his pocket and presses the speed dial to get in touch with his brother. And he too is left without an answer. In Mexico City, Maria flattens the thin tortilla dough and think