How It Happened

How it happens In a cavern, a black rose so rarely it became a religious symbol, no one could get near to see its beauty but the guardian could not keep away the bold. They found a black nylon sock given to a tramp by the salvation army, thrown away and forgotten. The rose represented a powerful symbol, the tale of the tramp was rejected, the conspiracy theorist asked: why had the bum thrown away one sock and not two? Given a choice, we prefer beauty over truth and the black rose became a place of worship, a place of pilgrimage, hotels were built, and the restaurants opened, and the business was fine until the day the virus came…