Black Friday by Ike Hamill

Author:Ike Hamill [Hamill, Ike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: www.ikehamill.com
Published: 2015-03-13T05:00:00+00:00

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Judy left the fedora on the antenna of her car. She didn’t want to touch it. Outside, she’d found no traces of the people who had disappeared except for the hat and the dog’s leash. Before she got in the car, she glanced up and down the street—empty. Her street had once contained giant single-family houses with sprawling floor plans. At some point in the evolution of the city, these houses had all been split into apartments. Staircases and kitchens were added. New walls divided the houses into little self-sufficient living areas.

Looking up the street, Judy saw that the doors to some of these houses stood open, inviting her into the darkness. At the top of her block, just visible through the falling snow, the traffic signal swung back and forth on its wire. It was dark. Judy started her engine and used the wipers to clear the accumulation from the windshield. She crept the car slowly up the street, leaning forward to look up in the sky. The streets were deserted. Judy didn’t see any faces in the windows of the houses she passed. The radio produced only static on all the local stations, so she turned it off.

Judy took a right and found a car pulled over to the side. It had left fresh tracks through the light snow, and the driver’s door was hanging open. She saw no sign of the driver, save for two footprints on the pavement. Judy swerved wide around the car and took in these details.

She pointed her car up the hill and headed for the heart of the city to look for signs of life.

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