Rolling Hunger by R W Krpoun

Author:R W Krpoun
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781508671954
Publisher: RW Krpoun
Published: 2015-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

“All right, listen up,” Marv clapped his hands for emphasis. “We’re looking at a tough one.” He gestured towards the sketch Dyson had made in Magic Marker on a boot-smudged sheet of cardboard. “The target area is a grain elevator which hasn’t been used in years. It consists of this square structure and four attached round silos, the whole business built out of Depression-era concrete. The square structure used to house the grain lifts and channels, and has offices at the top two floors; it is ten stories tall, although the first eight stories’ worth of height is just an open shaft. The silos are roughly eight stories tall, and are likewise just shafts, with openings at ground level and the top. The zeds have breached the ground floor entrances; the survivors are forted up in the two office stories on top of the square tower.” He tapped the diagram. “These two stories are only a few hundred square feet, so while the place is tall, the interior is small. Addison, roll the footage.”

He took a pull from his camelback while he waited for the video footage to finish. “OK, you can see what we’re up against: it looks like a free concert. There’s a couple hundred zeds in plain view and we have no idea how many are in the square tower or the silos. The plan is simple: we roll in and make a circle of the parking lot traveling clockwise so the front passengers can shoot and the drivers are protected; as you can see the entire grain elevator runs east-west, with the square tower on the east end. The parking lot and all ground-level entrances are on the south side, which is also where the infected are hanging out.”

“By staying mobile they shouldn’t be able to swarm any of our trucks, not that I really believe they could.” That was a lie, but the sort that the Gnomes needed to hear. “We will circle until the zeds are down or until I pull us back. Once the outside is clear we create a new plan.”

“There’s about a dozen people coming up from the due south tricked out like medieval warriors; they’re on our side, although how much good they will be, I don’t know. Be aware of your backstop at all times, friendly fire is a bitch.” That got a weak chuckle or two.

The Ranger sighed and looked at the circle of Gnomes sitting and standing before him in a half-circle in their mottled desert camouflage, the tactical webbing, the weapons, the open faces. “This won’t be easy, but there are twenty-one people on the top of the grain elevator who don’t have long to live if we don’t get them out. We’ve been thumping our chests over what a bad bunch of operators we are, and now is the time we change brag into cold hard fact. We are those peoples’ only hope; you are their only hope.” Marv looked from face to face. “Some

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