Extinction Gene Box Set | Books 1-6 by Maxey Phil

Author:Maxey, Phil [Maxey, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Pandemic | Survival | Thriller
Publisher: Philip Maxey
Published: 2021-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

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3:46 a.m.

Jess looked at the silhouette of buildings she knew like the back of her hand. She was about seven blocks from her own. The plan was simple. Get to her apartment. Find another backpack, fill it with anything she could think of, then take her keys, and drive her, and her sedan out of the underground parking garage.

Simple.

But she knew it wouldn’t be.

She had reached the end of the line on the freeway. It had already dipped to ground level and taking it any further would take her closer to apartments that hugged the road. If she got off it now, she could cut across the more industrial areas and walk the railway lines, which mirrored the road and would take her all the way to her own neighborhood.

She walked down a damp muddy slope, doing her best not to slide, and at the bottom lowered herself down the side of a wall, some six-feet high to gravel then walked quickly across a road, moving onto the sandy surface of a building site. She was soon clambering over a chain linked fence, and finally jumped down to the stoney ground that ran along the tracks. To her right the buildings of the downtown area were like jagged teeth against the lighter night sky. As she walked she thought about how just a week earlier she was shopping there, buying Josh’s present.

A dream…

That’s how it felt. That world only existed now in painful memories.

She walked past train car after train car, a seemingly endless convoy of abandoned industrial containers, destined to move no further, then parking lots, some empty, others full of vehicles and finally as she moved deeper into the city, apartment blocks, not so dissimilar to her own.

She had arrived at a station, the platform almost level with the tracks and stepped up onto it. Cranes from half constructed buildings, loomed above and she passed abandoned restaurants, their chairs and tables still full of rotting food, then moved onto the sidewalk, keeping close to the wall, which she occasional felt, to make sure it was still there, such was the darkness that the enclosed area created.

She couldn’t shake the feeling that she was walking within the underworld, a fossil of what once existed. Except the city wasn’t completely dead. When she passed entrances to garages, apartments or stores she would pick up the faint rasping noises of things lurking within them. She had no doubt if she were fully human, the street would erupt in screeches and her life would be over.

As she turned the final corner to her block, she looked up at the floor of her apartment, sighing in relief then began to look away…

Her head flicked back to the windows.

Impossible…

A light bobbed and weaved within her living room.

Someones alive? In our home?

She looked both ways along the street, having the feeling she was being watched, then not seeing anything moving in the gloom, ran across it, then along the sidewalk to the main entrance and pushed it open.

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