6 Days to Survive: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller by Phil Maxey

Author:Phil Maxey [Maxey, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Philip Maxey
Published: 2020-11-20T22:00:00+00:00

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Jess couldn’t sleep. She was also sure Landon hadn’t, despite his eyes being closed, but that didn’t matter because from their breathing, it seemed the kids were.

She usually didn’t like enclosed spaces. Her older sister had locked her in an old chest freezer when she was ten as a prank. It had only been less than a minute, but when her sister returned and said the lock had broken and she couldn’t get her out, it had been the first time she seriously considered death. The lock wasn’t broken, but Ester let her sweat a bit longer before flipping the lid.

The shelves of dusty volumes, artifacts and paintings surrounding her were a useful distraction though, from what could lay just outside the three inches of steel door. She had used the past few hours to go over the events of the previous night. From the crashed probe, to escaping the apartment, Ben crashing and everything since. Owen was right in one sense. Everyone from their former home had changed, but they hadn’t. Why? There must have been a reason. The spores were obviously in the air. The brown sludge that hit Hannah was the result of the spores interacting with other organic waste in the apartment block’s plumbing system. Landon had reported the same from outside and the store.

Karl changed, but Hannah hadn’t… her arms were covered in what looked like burns… was she immune? Was that why she never changed like her husband? Even if her neighbor had been unaffected by the spores, that wouldn’t explain why she and her family weren’t as well. The chances of that amount of people being immune, living close to each other, were… remote.

Something else had been bothering her as well. Power fluctuations. She couldn’t see how the spores would affect the energy grid, but it was just too much of a coincidence that each time there was an attack, a nearby source of power would go dark. Could the spores be drawing on the power? She couldn’t think of any example of that in nature, although all life drew on light from the sun, which is just another type of electromagnetic radiation. It would go somewhat to explaining how they were able to do what they do. Reconstitute living matter into something else. You need a hell of a lot of energy to do that.

She let her head fall back against a pillar of a shelf and sighed. Maybe if she had some sleep, answers would come to her…

“Jess?” She opened her eyes to Landon’s hand on her arm.

Josh and Sam were already standing near Meg, both holding what looked like spears, and she a knife.

Jess blinked, then with her husband’s help, stood. “What time is it? I must have nodded off.”

“About 7:15 a.m,” said Landon.

“Sun should be up,” said Meg. She looked at the children. “Hope you don’t mind, but I’ve given them some of the indigenous people’s weapons. They’re quite valuable, but right now, the fact that they are pointy is more important.

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