Northern Lights by Boyd Craven III

Author:Boyd Craven III [Craven, Boyd III]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Published: 2016-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

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“Why wouldn’t they be here?” I asked.

“Nobody has a watch, man,” Brian said looking out across the water.

The boat hadn’t moved much; we’d beached it high up on the sand and thrown the anchor line around a tree a couple times just in case, but it had moved. I wondered if the wind picked up on this lake more than the one we were camped out at.

“Is it that simple?” Tracy asked, “Or should we just go out there and see?”

She had a point.

“We only have one more big can of gas,” I pointed out, “but with as little as we use the boat…”

“It’ll probably go bad before we use it up,” Brian said.

“Yeah.”

“Unless Jordan and Tom start visiting their new lady friends,” Tracy said.

“I don’t… wait, what?” I asked flustered.

“Let’s push it in the water,” Brian said changing the subject.

I’ll be honest, her words were a bit of a shock to me because I’d done almost zero dating in any recent history. In fact, there was only one serious girlfriend between Tracy and the present time. Lots of ladies went out with me on a date or two. Either I or they figured out that we weren’t compatible or one of us would start talking politics and storm out of the restaurant, bar, whatever.

“You want to drive?” I asked them.

“Naw, you’re the DD on this trip, why break tradition?” Tracy said with a grin.

“Great. Wonderful.”

The boat launched easily, and when Brian used the oar to pull us towards deeper water by pushing off the bottom, I pulled the starting cord and played with the throttle until the little motor hummed. I put it in gear and we headed out. I’d love to say I remembered the way there perfectly, but I guess I’d spent more time checking out Denise than I thought on the way there because Brian pointed out a direction I wasn’t headed in. I turned the way he pointed and was rewarded with the sight of the Wood’s dock a few moments later. The canoe was tied up to one side, which I took to be a bad sign.

“Good thing we came, you think?” Brian asked.

“They’re probably cannibals or the sisters have Jordan tied up in some sort of macabre, perverted and twisted—“

“Ok already, you’re going to tell me what they said someday?” I interrupted Tracy.

They had talked about it last night, just quiet enough to piss me off and neither of them would tell me what was said.

“Still no, you’ll have to ask Denise,” Tracy said making a shushing motion with her finger over her lips.

“Slow down, would ya?” Brian asked.

With a start, I realized that I had been going towards the dock too quickly. I throttled down and put the small motor in reverse and gave it some juice. It worked and we slowed down quickly, stopping next to a cleat on the other side from the canoe.

“Only ropes on the one side of the dock,” Brian said.

“Use the anchor rope,” I

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