Charlie's Requiem: A Going Home Novella by Angery American & Walt Browning

Author:Angery American & Walt Browning
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Dystopian, Action & Adventure, Literature & Fiction
Published: 2015-12-20T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Day 5

Charlie

Publix Grocery Store, Kirkman Road

A couple more days went by and Dr. Kramer strode down the sidewalk and stopped short of the shopping plaza parking lot. Hundreds of people were clustered around the front entrance to the grocery store. The doors had been closed and metal storm shutters covered the windows while a retractable metal gate was in place over the front door. People were pounding on the metal gate, demanding to be let in.

We tentatively worked our way to the side of the building, standing next to the windows by the front entrance. The storm shutters covered all of the window except for the very outside edge. We were standing there, trying to decide what to do next, when I heard a tapping from the inside of the store. Someone was rapping their keys or some other metal object on the window from the inside.

I pressed my face against the window and peered into the dark slit where the shutter failed to cover the edge of the glass. Suddenly, a flashlight shone from within, illuminating someone’s face in front of me. It was the boy that Janice had talked into letting us into the store. He backed up from the window a bit and I could see him shining his flashlight on his hand. It was pointing back to the right where we had gone the last time to get in the back door.

I grabbed Janice and she peered into the window as well, confirming the boy’s intention to let us in the back once again. Janice told Dr. Kramer what had just happened and we proceeded around back where we found the young man waiting. Janice roughed up his hair as we walked passed him and into the darkened store.

“Hi, my name is Garrett,” he said as he closed the door. We could see a battery-powered lantern sitting in the front of the store. Garrett led us to the lighted spot where Mr. Wayneright and two other employees were seated.

“Hello, Dan.” Dr. Kramer said to the store manager.

“Dr. Kramer,” he replied. “I wish I could give you a better welcome.”

They shook hands warmly.

“How’s you dad doing?” the doctor asked.

“Alive!” the manager replied. “Thanks to you.”

“It was nothing,” he responded to the compliment. They both knew that was a lie.

“Doc!” Mr. Wayneright said. “I hope you can tell me what the hell is going on.”

“Let’s go to your office, so we can talk a bit,” he replied.

Dr. Kramer turned to Janice and me and pointed to the aisles of food behind us.

“You two ladies,” he commanded. “Get your list and see if your friend can help you gather what we need.”

Janice hooked her arm around Garrett’s and we stalked off to gather what we could.

“What’s going on?” Garrett asked after we left the other two. “Why is this happening?”

I glanced at Janice and she gave me a nod. So I explained, the best I could, what Dr. Kramer had told me.

After we had gathered about half of

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