Conflict: Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse by Joshua Jared Scott

Author:Joshua Jared Scott
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-06-30T23:00:00+00:00

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“I want to drive.”

“Maybe later.”

“Please Jacob.”

“I don’t think so. You can navigate instead.”

Mary shot me one of her more elaborate pouty looks. I think she’d been practicing.

“Or you can radio Lizzy and let her take the lead.”

“No, I’ll do it. Lizzy would steer us off a cliff or crash when she tried to look at the map while driving.”

She opened the road atlas, placing it on her lap. The action reminded me of Briana. She used to do the same thing. You know, it was strange not traveling with her. We’d bonded early in the disaster, and she’d been at my side almost continuously, until she became pregnant. Then, following that momentous event, we started spending more and more time apart. It seemed very wrong, but it wasn’t like I was at some bar drinking or hiding myself away in the basement. I was doing important work, trying to keep us all alive. Still… Ah, I should do something real nice for her later to make up for my prolonged absences.

“How far are we going on US-385?”

“All the way to Custer,” I replied. “That’s our starting point. It’s a big tourist town. Little town I mean, but based pretty much one hundred percent on tourism.”

“Lots of zombies then.”

“Probably, but they might have wandered off by now. Anyway, since it happened last year at the height of tourist season, the hotels and restaurants should have plenty of canned food for us to take, probably boxed as well. I think it will mostly be good. It doesn’t get too hot up there so less spoilage, but some of the things may have burst from the cold.”

“Heat expands. Cold shrinks. You didn’t pay attention in school.”

“Except for water,” I corrected. “That expands when it’s frozen. Soups and cans with lots of water in them, maybe even beans, could expand and break open if they froze.”

“None of ours did that last winter. I think you’re making this up. You’re too pessimistic.”

“Not pessimistic. I’m being realistic, and I am worried about feeding everyone. We have a whole lot of food, trucks and trucks of it, but there are so many people now. I think the number is probably going to go up too.”

“What?” she asked. “Don’t you think they’ll ever go home?”

I hesitated. “If the raiders are completely wiped out, yes, most of them would leave, but I’m having some doubts.”

“See, pessimism.”

“Maybe Mary. I don’t know. If it gets worse, you know more will be coming our way or sending their kids to us. If it drags on and on, they may not want to go home. Couldn’t really blame them either.”

“If more do want to come, are you going to let them?”

I nodded. “As long as they follow the rules and behave, I can’t tell them no.”

“Sure you could.” She laughed. “It’s easy. Lizzy tells Conrad no all the time.”

“He still bugging her?”

Mary leaned in, conspiratorially. “Oh, yeah. At least twice after Asher was born, but not as much now that there are more people around.

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