No Light Beyond by L. Douglas Hogan

Author:L. Douglas Hogan [Hogan, L. Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Infected
Publisher: Disgruntled Dystopian Publications
Published: 2018-01-14T22:00:00+00:00

Somewhere between Orland Park and Joliet

With the loss of Tanara and Tynice came the ability to ride Mason’s Harley Davidson Knucklehead. He’d picked it up after their escape from the church van and had been walking it along, preserving gasoline for when they needed it. Ravagers seemed to be particularly populated in and around larger communities.

As they pushed the motorcycle along the city streets, they heard some yelling, mingled with laughter, coming from up ahead. Mason stopped pushing the bike to focus their hearing on the sounds. The only thing Mason was able to hear were a few gunshots, some laughing sounds, and the word Smoka.

Mason and Shemika pushed the bike off the road as fast as they could and hid it behind a building, covering it with an old tarp that was blowing from a window. Mason held the edge of the tarp up for Shemika and said, “Get under here and wait for me. You should be safe. You have your pistol, right?”

Shemika pulled her pistol out. “Right here.”

“Good. Hang tight. I have to deal with this.” Mason handed her the edge of the tarp, and she tucked it under her body and remained still while Mason scurried off in the direction of the noise.

Mason moved into a position where he was able to look around the side of a building to see an old model tow truck driving around and around the block. There were Ravagers chasing the truck.

Mason couldn’t see enough from his position, so he moved across the street and accessed a building with a third-story view. From there, he saw a person tied to the boom. The truck was driving slowly enough to keep the hordes of Ravagers chasing them. The person tied to the boom appeared to be a man. They kept it raised just out of reach of the Ravagers, so that they were running and reaching for the man, but couldn’t get him.

When the truck circled back closest to Mason’s position, he saw two black men sitting on the back of the truck. A third black guy was driving with the windows up. One of the men on the back was controlling the winch and the boom; the other was taking shots at the Ravagers, none of which seemed to be causing any harm.

The man attached to the boom arm was crying out of fear. “Please, I’ve got kids. Don’t kill me.”

The two men just laughed as they used him to taunt the Ravagers and kept driving in circles around the block.

“Hey, Smoka,” the other man called out.

“Yeah?”

“We gotta be gett’n back to Romeo. He gonna freak. We been gone fo’ days.”

“Man, we found ’im a tow truck. It be worth the hassle, yo.”

“Still…”

“Okay, man,” Smoka said, tapping on the top of the old truck. Mason was now behind the wheel, and the previous driver was unconscious on the floorboard of the passenger side of the truck.

“Take us back to Joliet, Frenz’,” Smoka called out to the driver, completely unaware that his buddy was out cold and the truck had assumed a new operator.

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