Survive (Day 3) by Wise A.R

Author:Wise, A.R. [Wise, A.R.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction | Post-Apocalyptic | Infected
Published: 2017-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Day Three – 2:58 pm

True to form, Red slept just fine. Despite everything that haunted him, he still managed to fall asleep while curled up in the backseat of the Subaru Outback. When he woke up, they ate a meager lunch of pears and beef jerky before heading back out on the road, hoping to get to the edge of Colorado before nightfall.

Red and June hadn’t made it far before their trip was stalled. A collision between a white van and a station wagon had caused a minor traffic jam that’d since been abandoned.

“I’ve got a feeling we’re going to see a lot of this,” said June.

“There’s a body.” Red pointed to a corpse on the side of the road.

Brown fields stretched on either side of the road, loping like frozen ripples in a lake, the road carving a grey line through the otherwise empty canvas. There wasn’t a tree, or stone, or house in sight. Nowhere to hide.

The road was elevated slightly, with ditches on either side that preceded a fence that only had two strands of wire stretched between posts. The corpse of a woman in a blue dress was laying halfway into the ditch, her naked feet pointed up, stiff and grey.

“The ditch is too deep here,” said June. “Let’s turn around and try to find a spot where we can get down into the field and drive.

“Wait, look.” Red leaned forward, peering at the cars ahead. “There’s something in that car. The one behind the wreck. I think it’s a dog. See it?”

The animal paced in the back seat, then jumped to the front, and then back again. It had short brown and white fur, and was panting as it moved frantically around.

“I see it,” she said.

Red took off his seatbelt, and reached for the door handle.

“What’re you doing?”

“I’m going to check on it.”

“The dog?” she asked, astounded.

“Yeah, what else?”

She grabbed his shirt to hold him back. “No you’re not.”

He looked genuinely confused. “Why not?”

“Are you kidding? How do you know there aren’t infected people out there?”

“Every other time we’ve seen infected, they’ve come running at us immediately. It’s like they can’t help themselves.” He looked around at the calm scene. “No one’s here.”

“Let’s not tempt fate. All right? Let’s go back and see if…”

“I’m not leaving that dog in there to starve to death.”

She stared at him, uncertain how to respond.

He assumed her silence was meant to chastise him. “I’m sorry, but I’m not going to just let him starve. At the very least we’ve got to get him out of the car. It’s hot outside. He’s got to be baking in there.”

“For all we know, dogs can carry the disease too.”

He sneered as if she’d said something preposterous. “Come on.”

“What? I’m being serious.”

“Then I’ll just break a window or something.”

“Why are we… Look, Red, I like dogs too. Okay? I’m not trying to be a monster here, but the whole world’s blowing up around us. This isn’t exactly the time to start worrying about someone else’s dog.

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