Stryker: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale by Bobby Andrews

Author:Bobby Andrews [Andrews, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

The rest of the drive was uneventful, and they changed drivers every two hours. Stryker took the last shift and drove up to his house, told the ladies to stay in the vehicle, went inside, and cleared the building. He waved for everyone to come in, and they divided the five bedrooms. Stryker and Sarge each took a room on opposite ends of the house, Haley and Erin each had their own room, and Jenna and Elle shared the last bedroom. After eating a dinner of ramen with canned chicken, they all went to bed.

Stryker woke up and glanced around. It was still dark and he rose and looked out the window. The moon was still ascendant and he wondered what woke him. He put on a pair of gym shorts, grabbed the XD from its holster, and walked on tiptoes through the living room. He opened the front door and stepped outside. He heard the yip of a distant coyote, then the buzzing sound of crickets. He walked to both ends of the porch and glanced around the corners, seeing nothing. He moved to a chair and sat down, puzzled at why he woke up. His eyes wandered to the east, where the highway passed his house around a mile away. A humming sound reached his ears, first growing louder, then fading. The sound was familiar but he was unable to identify it.

He thought about his wife and child. Then he thought of Erin. He couldn’t deny he felt an attraction, and knew they would have to have “the conversation” before long, but had no idea what he intended to say. Sarge complicated things. His own feelings did the same. Their age difference didn’t make things easier, and the fact that they would all have to live together and get along made the consequences of a failed relationship more daunting. It was not as if one of them could move to a different town or not see each other day in and day out.

He remembered when he was separated from his watchful grandparents as a child. He was around four years old and walked out of the grocery store where they shopped and into an unfamiliar town street. He wandered for what seemed like hours, fascinated by the new sights and smells, but terrified at the idea of being lost and alone. That was exactly how he felt sitting on the porch. He fell into a half sleep, neither asleep nor fully awake.

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