Escape The Dark (Book 3): Into The Ruins by Fawkes K.M

Author:Fawkes, K.M. [Fawkes, K.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Thriller
Published: 2020-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Several miles disappeared beneath their weary feet without incident. Adam struggled to keep his mind in the present moment, as he knew Artem would have suggested. But it was difficult. Images of the things he’d seen kept swimming up in his mind, playing in his memory like a horror film. The look on John’s face as he’d ranted madly about Adam stealing his daughter away. The feel of the gun going off in his hand. The pile of bodies in the road. The children with blood on their clothes and bullet holes in their heads…

“Look at that,” Ella said, snapping Adam out of his reverie.

It took a moment for the shapes clustered in the dusty clearing by the side of the road to make sense. They were familiar, but they were so disconnected from the life Adam was living now that he couldn’t seem to place them. Finally, the gears in his mind clunked to life. “That’s a fairground,” he said.

It had all the standard features. Rickety rides—a Ferris wheel, a pirate ship that would swing back and forth in a pendulum arc, a plastic-looking merry-go-round. There were rows of booths featuring the kinds of games that were designed to swindle the gullible or the carefree out of their money. Here and there, a few carts advertised Hot Dogs! and Popcorn! and Deep Fried Pickles!

“You don’t suppose those carts still have food, do you?” Ella asked.

“Any food they might have had would have gone bad a long time ago,” Adam said. “Especially after the EMP. No refrigeration.”

“Not necessarily,” Ella said. “There could be bottles of soda or bags of chips. I’d take anything with calories in it.”

“But our bags are full,” Adam pointed out. “We can’t get rid of the cans of beans in favor of bags of chips.”

“No,” Ella agreed. “But we could eat chips for dinner tonight and save the beans. It’d buy us one extra day.”

“Good point,” Adam said. “Might as well check it out. And maybe we can find a secluded place to sleep in there. It’d be better than being out in the open.”

They turned off the highway and into the fairground. The place was as devoid of life as everything else they’d come across, and yet it somehow felt much creepier than an empty highway or convenience store. A fair, Adam thought, was a place that was supposed to be full of life and noise and laughter. It wasn’t supposed to be this wasteland.

He paused beside the bumper cars. They were scattered about, looking every bit as though twenty little drivers had just climbed out, screaming with delight. Surely ride operators lined the cars up at the edge of the ride surface when they were closing up for the night? He thought he remembered seeing that done before. But whoever had been responsible for shutting down this ride had just left it.

Maybe it was running when the EMP went off? No, that didn’t make sense. That was well after the virus had begun claiming lives by the hundreds.

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