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Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear
All rights reserved © 2003 M.F. Korn


All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by
Double Dragon eBooks, a division of Double Dragon Publishing of Markham Ontario, Canada.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's
imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
entirely coincidental.

Layout and Cover Illustration by Deron Douglas
ISBN: 1-55404-062-0
First Edition eBook Publication June 9, 2003




SKIMMING THE GUMBO NUCLEAR

by

M. F. Korn




"Facilis DescensusAverno"




For my daughter Savannah Hart Korn, the late Patricia Ann Korn Mestayer- Endres, and especially for
two huge Depression-era families from whence I came eventually out of thriving multitudes: the massive
Sibille Family of the Acadiana area of Louisiana, rich in heritage and lineage, and the massive, rugged
Korn family, also rich in heritage and lineage, whose sons picked cotton every day before school which
ennobled each of them. These large families and numerous others like them crested at a time of Integrity,
where these families held on strong during tough times in the hot Louisiana sun.




Mutant in the Mirror: An Introduction by Jeffrey Thomas

Toward the climax of M. F. Korn’s SKIMMING THE GUMBO NUCLEAR, he mentions, "man’s
godlike charm at creating his own hell." This is in reference to the ecological horrors wrought in this
apocalyptic novel, but there is also a more personal hell implied in this passage. Self-destruction on a
more intimate scale. It is the book’s greatest fascination for me; that, while encompassing the potential
destruction of all humankind, it also chronicles the downward spiral of one particular man. Indeed,
though there is a potent cautionary fable at the heart of this story, a warning shouted out in great