Accelerated Times by Jason McGathey

Author:Jason McGathey
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: BookBaby

General consensus has it that their west side excursion turned into a complete bloodbath. Divining that which had to be true because so many people vocally ratified it versus that which had morphed and spread, becoming hearsay, this was not always the easiest talent to sharpen, but Eldorado tended to believe he had the knack. A reporter was nothing if he couldn’t smell horse dung from a few stables away, and that’s all this assignment represented, the most white knuckled, edge of your seat reportage he’d ever done. Which meant he trusted his instincts in these matters twice as much now, from the magnified intensity focusing his every heartbeat to a pencil point.

So the details may have been off a bit, but the story he kept hearing didn’t stray too far from its thread line: out there at that post office on the west side, the baddies had hemmed in and mowed down everyone on the ground floor, their would be spies included. That Luke had put up one hell of a fight on the rooftop before finally running out of ammo. Eldorado did wonder how much of this Steve and the other two, centrally located moles knew, but he hadn’t seem them as was guessing they’d either never been deployed or had not made it in.

“Eldorado speaking here, Eldorado speaking....I have not gotten a good look at the cargo yet, the crates are secure and storage whereabouts unknown...central organization spotty...they seem to have an objective in mind and clearly defined superiors, but organization and enforcement is otherwise lax....”

He was laying predominantly atop a shelf of dry goods in some janitorial hold down below, in the ship’s undercarriage or whatever it was called. For two days he dared not move, except to urinate in a dim, cobwebbed corner. Forty seven years old and this is his first experience ever in any vessel larger than a fishing boat on some family campground lake, but the heave and ho motion he found not upsetting in the least. On the contrary, as with lack of food the urge to sleep grew greater, this gentle sway as they heaved their way upriver - or was it downriver - eased him into dreamland.

“Have heard mention of continuing out to sea, repeat, this ship may be heading out to sea...crew in general seem uninformed, however, would not take tremendous stock in this assessment.”

By the third morning, however, it was clear that he would need to venture outward. Any information he‘d related had been acquired during his initial handful of hours on board, and not only that, there was the issue of food. Maybe plane wreck survivors or someone lost in the desert could survive without such, and he supposes he could as well in a situation where there truly was no food. Yet the knowledge that there had to be all kinds of edible booty stored on board here made this notion insupportable.

“Questions concerning your Dr. Logan were carefully presented to various crew members, would not seem to ring a bell with anyone.

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