America the Dead Survivor Stories Five by W. G. Sweet

Author:W. G. Sweet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: apocalypse, undead, dystopian, undead apocalypse, dystopian adventure, earths survivors, dystopian action thriller, apocalypse apocalyptic, apocalypse adventure, dell sweet
Publisher: NetReadz

SIX

Best Laid Plans

~ March 20th ~

“…it’s not the same every day,” Tom was saying as Candace came out of the cave entrance. She looked a question at Mike and Ronnie where they sat listening.

“Length of the day,” Mike explained.

“Yeah,” Tom agreed. He nodded at Candace. “Yesterday, twenty-six hours and a couple of minutes. Day before, twenty five and forty-two.”

“Pretty close though,” Ronnie said. “Starting to become uniform. Beats the days when it was closer to forty hours or more.”

Tom nodded.

“We don’t know what it means anyway,” Candace said. “Even a scientist would probably give us about ten hours of song and dance and then hand us the same old bullshit theory based on some other theory, based on, well, you know.”

“It’s colder again,” Mike said. “But it doesn’t feel cold enough to snow.” He looked up to see if anyone held a different view.

Janet Dove and Sandy walked out of the cave with the young girl, Annie, and the two little ones trailing her. A few seconds later Tim came out of the cave too, looking around until his eyes fell on Annie. Candace smiled and glanced over at Janet Dove who was also smiling. “Good morning, Janet,” Candace said. “I see you’ve got lots of help this morning.” Everyone carried boxes filled with odds and ends. They set them down, and Annie and Tim began going through them.

“I do at that, Candy,” Janet said. “We’re sorting through the stuff we brought back, to see what we’ll take with us, what else we need.” Candace smiled and nodded back.

“Candy?” Mike mouthed when she looked his way. She rolled her eyes.

Bob walked over. “I thought we should make specific lists. Janet’s going to make lists of what we’ll really need and what we have, so when we go out, that way we’re not out a long time. We’re going for exactly what we need,” Bob said.

Everyone nodded agreement. “I guess we should all be thinking like that,” Mike said.

“Yeah,” Ronnie agreed. “What we take, or have to have, we may end up carrying. There’s no guarantee that there will be roads in good shape, or roads at all.”

The conversation bounced back and forth for nearly an hour, everyone contributing ideas that they thought should be on the lists: food stuffs that were high in protein, clean, bottled water, back packs, the big ones hikers use, tents. Candace produced a pen and Patty, who had joined them, wrote it all down. “That way we’re all on the same page,” Candace said.

“I think we should dig in with Janet,” Mike said. “See what we need, what we got, what we need to get.”

Mike ~ March 20th

We spent the day getting organized, everything we have, everything we need, what we need to get. Janet got us moving, and it turns out we’ve been bringing back a lot of the wrong stuff. Candy bars, canned stuff, things that would be great if we were going to stay here - well, maybe not the candy bars, but they have their attraction - sneakers instead of boots, that sort of thing.

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