Adam (Genetic Apocalypse Book 1) by Craven Jr Boyd

Author:Craven Jr, Boyd
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Boyd Craven Jr
Published: 2015-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Terry Edan:

“I was right over here,” I said, pointing to a spot in the street just around the curve, where Main St. became Tickner St. “I was just a half-dozen spots east of your husband. I noticed some kayaks come under Bridge Street, heading upriver. Hybrid kids. At least a half-dozen at first glance, giggling and laughing. Their voices are what caught my attention over the din of the market. Hybrids in full sunshine, with lots of skin exposed get a super-charge of energy. It makes their voices project more and causes them to lengthen the duration of each spoken word, unconsciously. It makes them sound a bit like the ‘professional’ wrestlers that used to be on TV. My son Scott gets a big case of it every time, and he never realizes it unless we tell him. It’s like the opposite of what happens if an heirloom person inhales helium, then talks.

“They beached their kayaks over there,” I pointed, “on the gravel bar in the middle of the river, where it’s really shallow.” It was about forty feet behind the gazebo where the stage was.

“They got out and were dancing and singing along with the band. Just acting like kids. It was kind of cute, actually. They were having a helluva good time!

“A couple of the men who had apparently accompanied their wives to market day to ‘protect them’, were fishing off the dam on the downstream side, because rumor has it, there are some pretty decent walleyes in the hole created by the falling water. The fishermen seemed to be pretty well drunk, but who knows? They started yelling at the hybrid kids to, ‘Get the hell outta there and quit scaring the fish’. The hybrid kids just ignored them and kept on partying it up. Pretty soon a policeman showed up. He told them that if they wanted to listen to the band, they had to get out of the river and sit on the bleachers on the hill like everyone else, and behave. They did. They put their kayaks on the bank and went to the bleachers. As soon as they got settled in there, between songs when it was quiet, some woman called the girls whores, for ‘flaunting themselves’ in front of the men like that. The boy that I later figured out was Adrian, told her to, ‘Shut up.’ Loudly. During the next song, the policeman came back and told them to get out of the bleachers, since they couldn’t behave themselves. They did. They walked across the dam over here to the farmers market.

“About the time that they got to the far end of the market on the East St side, vendors started yelling at them from their tables and stalls to, ‘Get out of town and quit scaring the customers away.’ Again, Adrian yelled at them to, ‘Shut up!’

“Well, your husband heard him from his tables. He ran out there and shouted at Adrian to, ‘Get the hell outta here,’ and some other things that I missed.

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