Life on the Preservation by Jack Skillingstead

Author:Jack Skillingstead
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd

SHE CAME AWAKE in the dark and was frightened. Groping for the exit, she found a counter and sink basin. “Fuck.” Ass to the sink, she put her arms out and walked straight to the door and out. Linda was gone. Kylie stepped around Wolcott’s body.

THE GOLDWING IDLED in the street, gray clouds condensing from its tailpipes. A number of SAB bodies, heads blown and limbs twisted, lay around it. The rain had slacked off, though the sky remained turbulent. Father Jim was nowhere in sight. It had been hours and the Honda had idled away a good deal of fuel. Kylie mounted the bike and looked west, where Kitsap Way eventually connected to Highway 3, then she looked east, which would take her back to the Carl Vinson.

Soon Kylie would fall ill, like all the others. Sooner than that, something else would probably get her, alone on the road to California. She hadn’t wanted to die crashing the Penetrator. But what if she didn’t have to? What if there was a chance, a real chance, that she could fly into a world that at least appeared the way it used to be, before The Judgment? Father Jim was an experienced jet pilot. With him at the controls it was possible. He would have gone to the wail of the siren, gone to the Carl Vinson. By now the P.O. and Vina would have filled him in.

Of course, he might attack her on sight. Try to cut her. But it was worth the chance. Anything was worth the chance.

She swung off the Goldwing and ran back inside the Red White and Blue Diner. Wolcott’s locator – the EM field detector – lay under a table near his body. She grabbed it and stuffed it in a deep pocket of her leather jacket. Like a good luck totem.

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