Into the Dark (Into the Dark Post-Apocalyptic EMP Thriller Book 1) by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2018-04-17T22:00:00+00:00

Bobby Gilbert watched the sun rise and took a deep breath of this new world air.

It was a beautiful sunrise. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. Honestly, the birds didn’t know any different. They didn’t know a thing had changed. To them, the world was just the same as it’d always been. They didn’t rely on power. They didn’t rely on electricity. They just got by with life in their own way.

And in a sense, that actually made them more advanced than humans. Because they hadn’t become spoon-fed by what society provided them. They hadn’t become eternally attached to the breast of information that society held out, desperate not to let go, like a child latching on for dear life.

But every baby must detach from that tit eventually.

And right now, humanity was the baby that’d been thrown into the real world.

Only the vast majority of them wouldn’t make it.

Only those who were prepared.

Only those who were willing to do the bad stuff—the dirty stuff—to keep themselves alive; to keep the species alive.

“Is the telly still not working, Daddy?”

Bobby heard the sweet little voice of his daughter, Eleanor, and his stomach sank. He turned around to her. Smiled. “No telly for a long while, princess.”

She looked back at him with her long, blonde locks, disappointed look on her face. “But I wanted to watch Scooby Doo.”

“And you will again,” he said, feeling guilty for even saying as much. “Sometime.”

“But when’s ‘sometime’?”

“Just not yet,” Bobby said.

It was hard. Having to live as a single parent, it wasn’t easy. But after the accident his ex had suffered, he was left to his own devices.

And one thing was for sure.

No matter what, he wanted to make sure his daughter was strong enough. He wanted to make sure she was a fighter.

Because she needed to be to thrive before the lights went out.

Now things were different, she absolutely needed to learn if she were to survive, let alone thrive.

So he sat down opposite her. And as hard as it was, he prepared to tell her what she needed to know if she were to make it.

Because if anything happened to him… Eleanor needed to be ready.

“We’re going to have to go out today,” he said.

“But it’s school, isn’t it?”

“There isn’t going to be any school for a while.”

Eleanor looked confused. “Like a holiday?”

“Like a holiday. Only… there’s going to be some bad things out there. Some things you’ll see that you won’t like. But I promise that I’ll look out for you. And I’ll teach you some things. Some tricks that’ll help you. That sort of thing. Okay?”

Eleanor still looked baffled. But the fact she nodded her head was something. It was progress. It was a willingness to learn.

That’s all Bobby needed for now. Intention.

“First things first? I want you to go upstairs and grab your school bag. And I want you to fill it with cans from the kitchen. And knives from the drawers. But be careful with them, okay? You don’t want to hurt yourself.

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