Lazarus Rising by Sharon K Grosh

Author:Sharon K Grosh [Grosh, Sharon K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781684335039
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: 2020-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

MICHAEL - 28

Home, thought Michael. His mind wandered back to the moment this morning, before he tied his tie, as he looked out onto the prairie view he loved. That was today? He sighed as he realized he stopped wandering the tunnels and was staring into space. Where’re the kids? Kay would be in school at her college in Wyoming. How long did they fight about that? She could have gone to his alma mater, Duke, with an amazing jump start to a successful career in finance. Instead, she wanted to go to a small liberal arts college in the middle of nowhere. Max used to wander through southwestern towns in Nevada and jumped trains to Mexico, until he recently took this IT job at the university. His location was someplace across the river, in a huge windowless building. The unsettling thought that Max was also trapped forced Michael to stop walking. The present is a cloudy mess, there is no infrastructure. There is no one to help him find his family.

Was Hawk right? The US was obliterated by nuclear attack? Was there government? Hawk was certain that ten major cities, and hundreds of others, were bombed enough to have no survivors. Where did that leave him, persona non-grata? What can a lawyer do without a constitution?

As he stood, letting his mind float away from this reality, an idea stopped all other thoughts. I need to take a new approach in finding Marcella. Instead of wandering the tunnels, like a hundred other people, looking for her and asking if anyone knew her, he needed to do things differently. In truth, no one even showed the slightest interest in helping him. He was starting to think his carefully curated tie and suit were hindering his cause.

Did he have any skills that he could use to help others? Michael strained his dehydrated head for a while, thinking about that question. He would need to find water soon. People had water bottles and were filling them from a tap in one of the bathrooms. There was a line for water. But Michael sensed that it would not be advisable for him to cut into line because he was dehydrated. He must look pretty bad, however, as a young woman came up to him and allowed him to drink from her water bottle. She did not look very good either. Her head was covered with a scarf and her complexion was ruddy, showing how much stress her body was in.

He was staring at her when she said, “You don’t have to stare. I was here for my weekly chemo treatment and I guess I won’t be having that to look forward to. Come to think of it, I could go outside and get radiation. Ha! What’s up with you? You look different.”

Michael turned to look at his suit, torn with splotches of blood pressed into the fabric. He was sure he looked scary too. As the water

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