Survival (Book 1): And Tomorrow by Halse Ralph F

Author:Halse, Ralph F. [Halse, Ralph F.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Horror | Post-Apocalyptic | Infected
ISBN: 9781487419677
Publisher: Devine Destinies
Published: 2018-07-27T04:00:00+00:00

Junior Watson was the cruelest human being Kitch had ever encountered. Every school had a bully, some several. Most, unbeknown to teaching staff, operated on different levels of psychological and physical cruelty simultaneously. Back in the day at Junior High, Junior was like a great white shark circling his prey. He collected school bullies like some kids collected stamps. If the bully agreed to become one of Junior’s followers, he left them alone. A refusal saw Junior throwing all his considerable effort, and that of his bully followers, into utterly crushing the refuser, physically and mentally, until the kid left the school. There was no joining his gang after refusal because Junior hated disloyalty.

Kitch watched Junior’s lumbering frame as he followed. Subtlety was not one of Junior’s strong points unless it involved prolonged torture. Given the right victim and circumstances, Junior cunningly employed his enormous strength and size to inflict pain without ever leaving a mark. He then had his gang apply intense psychological pressure to his victims until they cracked. Kitch knew Junior’s favorite school past time was watching, delivering, and reliving stories of his conquests with his cronies.

In less than a heartbeat, Kitch recalled his desperate parents debating his school and health options across the meal table. They had an inkling Junior Watson might be behind Kitch’s issues, but like all parents concerned about such things, they were guessing and quickly moved on to more logical causes. Fact was, they were right the first time. It was Junior Watson and had been so since preschool.

It was no secret Junior’s family turned the brute over to the school at the age of eight—he was a freak of nature in every respect. A throwback, some said out of earshot. By the age of ten, Junior was taller than many adults and weighed as much as some professional footballers. Kitch had heard that by age eleven, Junior had cruelly beaten both his parents into several hospitals’ emergency departments on so many occasions, the staff lost count. He physically and mentally tortured his brothers and sisters so often they feared to close their eyes at night, lest he murder them in their sleep. He slaughtered the family pets in hideous ways, along with any neighbor’s pets he trapped in homemade snares.

He was undone around his fifteenth birthday after he broke into the local petting zoo, where police discovered him dismembering petting zoo bunnies with his hands. He gave the excuse that he wanted to see how their insides worked because he was thinking of becoming a doctor. That response amused the cops to no end, since most knew Junior was going to end up one thing—a criminal. And it was only a matter of time before they locked him up, or in more practical terms—how long his family’s expensive lawyers could keep him out of jail. The same thing at the end of the day, the Sheriff had remarked to the arresting officers.

At his hearing, the authorities decided institutionalizing and medicating Junior was the only answer.

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