America Dark_A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller by Keith Taylor

Author:Keith Taylor [Taylor, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-25T22:00:00+00:00

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IT WAS GETTING on for six before Shepherd was ready to get on the road again. He’d told Abi he needed time to make repairs to the truck, and while that was halfway true – he wanted to make sure the shots into the side hadn’t hit anything important on their journey through the vehicle – he was more concerned about her health. She was still shaky on her feet and deathly pale, and the only thing that would fix that were food, water and time. He’d given her a candy bar and more water from his bug out bag, sent her to rest on the back seat of the truck and crawled beneath the car to check it out. Everything seemed fine, but he tinkered under the hood and checked his tire pressures for an hour while she slept.

Shepherd hadn’t signed up to be a nurse, and he didn’t relish the thought of dragging a wounded woman along for the ride to the cabin, especially now he’d lost some of his supplies, but on the other hand he couldn’t abide the thought of just dumping her somewhere far from home to fend for herself. As tough and uncaring as the old man might have been, even Shep Senior would probably have thought twice about doing that. Young attractive women don’t tend to fare very well when things break down. When the rules fail, eventually everything becomes a commodity. Even people.

And besides, she might be useful. She seemed to have a good bead on current events, and information could be as valuable as a good sidearm in what was to come. Information and insight might be the difference between walking into danger and making it to safety.

Shepherd would be the first to admit that he usually only tuned in to the evening news for the sports segment. With few exceptions the news was something that happened far from Willow Falls. It was a soap opera that starred feuding talentless celebrities Shepherd couldn’t name with a gun to his head. It was an endless parade of politicians on both sides of the political divide who seemed to care more about scoring cheap points than actually helping people.

More than anything these days the news seemed to be angry shouting matches between bloated, overpaid talking heads, all of them yelling about the latest politically correct drama blowing up on Twitter. Is Starbucks offending Native Americans with the pumpkin spice latte? Should the First Lady have worn that hat to that event? And, hey, just which bathroom should a disabled transgender Dominican war veteran use? Tune in at six to see who can yell about it the loudest.

He wouldn’t argue that these things weren’t important. They probably were vitally important to the people involved, but they wouldn't be settled on the evening news, and they had about as much relevance to Shepherd and the people of Willow Falls as a debate on how high you could jump on the surface of Mars. As long

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