Just Another Day in the Zombie Apocalypse (Episode 7) by L.C. Mortimer

Author:L.C. Mortimer [Mortimer, L.C.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2017-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

When Alice, Mark, and Kyle left, they locked the door. Torrance heard the lock click soundly into place, and then she got up. She might be injured, but she was going to pull her weight around here, damn it. No matter what was going on in the outside world, she wasn’t going to be a mooch. Yeah, she needed to rest, but she also needed to be active.

Winter would be here soon, and they needed to be ready. She knew better than most exactly how rough the winters near Raven could be. Oh, it was cold all over Kansas in the winter, but Raven was its own little world.

She went to the kitchen and started looking through their supplies. Alice and Mark had brought quite a bit with them when they’d come from the library. It wasn’t enough, though. Even non-perishables would go bad over time, and there simply wasn’t enough food for all four of them. Not if they wanted to keep eating a certain amount of food.

As a teenager, Torrance had worked in a local grocery store. She was only a cashier: nobody of importance. Everyone ignored her unless they needed something, except for Alexander. Alexander wanted her to succeed. He wanted her to do well. He had taken her under his wing and shown her everything she needed to know about running the entire business.

Soon Torrance learned how to manage the warehouse, how to take inventory, and how to order before the store ran out of stock. She learned how to document which items were selling quickly and which ones weren’t profitable. She figured out exactly what it took to keep the grocery store running perfectly.

It had been years since that summer. It had been years since she’d sat side-by-side with Alexander, pouring over inventory slips and order forms. It had been years, but she still remembered all of the lessons he taught her, and today, Torrance was going to use those lessons.

She got a piece of paper and grabbed a pen, and then Torrance started writing.

First off, they were going to need water. They were going to need lots of it. They could always melt snow if they were in a bind, but that wasn’t always the safest option. Who knew how polluted the snow was when it fell? She didn’t think the virus was airborne, but she shuddered at the idea that there could be zombie virus particles floating around in the air. If they were going to melt snow or collect rainwater, they’d need a filtration system.

Torrance wrote bleach on the sheet of paper and kept going. She’d learned a lot about how to filter and collect water during her time in Raven, but she was certain they could find plenty of bottled water, too. There had to be tons of it in the houses and stores surrounding the area. With the car Mark and Alice had brought, they’d be able to go out, collect tons of water, and bring it back in one trip.

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