Apocalypse Weird: Genesis (The White Dragon Book 1) by Bolz Stefan

Author:Bolz, Stefan [Bolz, Stefan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-12T18:30:00+00:00

Jennifer Wang grew up in a trailer park in River Head. Her mother died of a brain tumor when she was two. Her father remarried a year later. His new wife had three children of her own — all boys who were much older than Jennifer. One day, the police came to their house and arrested her father. She found out much later that he was a cocaine dealer. She was seven at the time. There were prison visits for a year that ended abruptly when her stepmom brought another guy to their house one night and Jennifer told her dad about it. From that moment on, life for her was hell.

She ran away when she was fourteen and again when she was fifteen. Both times she got picked up by the police several towns over, sleeping in cars that she’d broken into. The day of her high school graduation, she took a bus to Long Island City and walked into the Armed Forces Recruitment Center to enlist in the Marines. She knew deep down that this was the only choice she had. She needed to get away, start fresh, become someone other than who she grew up to be.

Two months later, she stepped onto the yellow footprints of Parris Island in North Carolina. She finished boot camp at the top of her class thirteen weeks later and experienced the scariest day of her life when, at the Eagle, Globe and Anchor emblem ceremony, her Staff Sergeant approached her.

“Wang,” she said.

“Yes, ma’am,” Jennifer whispered back.

They had never before spoken quietly to each other at boot camp.

“Look at me.”

It was very difficult for Jennifer to meet her Staff Sergeant’s eyes. For three months, she had been trained never to look directly at her drill instructor. When she did, her Sergeant placed the Eagle, Globe and Anchor emblem into her left hand, while firmly shaking her right saying, “You’ve earned this, marine.”

Later on, even the possibility of losing her life in Afghanistan had less of an emotional impact than that day.

During her second tour, after her unit barely escaped an insurgent attack and two of her men were severely wounded, she realized that she wanted to be a doctor. When she went back home — she was enlisted to the 6th Communications Battalion out of Brooklyn — she applied to Stony Brook School of Medicine and was honorably discharged from the Navy as a Sergeant with a bachelor’s degree. From there, she went on to medical school.

On Saturday morning, at the very moment when Kasey woke up on the beach with Jack, Jennifer had begun her shift at South Side Hospital in Bay Shore. She was in her third year of med school and scheduled to ride along on one of the ambulances that day as part of her training. The first call came at 7:07. An accident on Ocean Parkway. A tractor-trailer had smashed into a parked car. When Jennifer arrived at the scene, together with her two EMT’s, she saw

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