Let's Play White by Chesya Burke

Author:Chesya Burke [Burke, Chesya]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: chesya burke, apex publications, let's play white
Publisher: Apex Publications
Published: 2013-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

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The hardware store was two miles from the utility complex and three and a half miles from The Hills. If we rushed, we could get there, get gas, and get back home before dark and before any of the memories of the day had a chance to etch themselves into our brains. I hoped.

Inside, we each grabbed a shopping cart and headed toward the generators. I wanted to get as much water and other supplies as possible too, because you could never have too much stuff. The store looked deserted. There were no lights, but the big front windows lit up most of the inside of the building. It was amazing, but almost nothing in the store looked touched. It was as if no one had thought of coming here, yet. I was sure that any Wal-Mart or somewhere just as commercial would be bare by this point. Considering the way people behaved in Georgia when there was only a snow alert, imagine the insanity when under the threat of zombie attack.

Just as I turned the corner, a man stood in my way, pointing a pistol at my head. I stopped, didn’t say a word. In the background, I could hear the others talking to each other, assuring the each person that everything was fine. It wouldn’t be too long before they realized they hadn’t heard my voice.

“What the hell do you want?” the guy whispered.

I held my hands up in the air, not wanting to piss him off. “Nothing. Just supplies and stuff.”

“Just supplies and stuff,” the man mocked. “My supplies. My stuff.” His blue eyes shone just like they did in all the books I’d read. It looked like the man might be getting ready to cry.

“I’m sorry, man, we didn’t mean any harm. We just needed stuff because all the lights just went out—” Before I could finish, Tiny grabbed the man under his arms and put him in a full nelson headlock so he couldn’t move. I walked up and took the gun from the man.

“I’m gonna let you go, but I don’t want no shit from you or I’ll break your kneecaps, you hear?” Tiny could be really threatening when he needed to. Actually, with his body size, he didn’t really need to most of the time. Tiny slowly lowered the man to the ground, and for the first, time I realized that he had lifted him off the floor. The others came running to us, having heard Tiny.

“What’s going on?” Allen asked.

“Nothing. This fool pulled a gun on me.”

“Who are you?” Simms said.

“This was my place before you guys broke in.”

“Broke in my ass,” she said. “The damn door was opened.”

“It was unlocked, not opened.” The man was a smartass.

“Fuck you, man,” Tiny said. “It don’t belong to you no more than it belongs to us.”

Simms squinted her eyes, got in the man’s face. “Shit, ya’ll know who this is? This here’s Cadillac Man.” Before the man could respond, she reached out and punched him in the jaw.

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