Survive Texas Dead by C. A. Hoaks

Author:C. A. Hoaks [Hoaks, C. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2018-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Valentine

“What happened?” Ask Darlene in a soft whisper. She pulled a sleeping Penny closer.

Everyone in the truck stared at the mayhem that had been visited on the resident of the tiny town of Valentine, Texas.

“Maybe, it was a tornado?” Della asked.

Steve answered. “There was that storm three days ago.”

“Oh, God. The people?” Della whispered.

Steve picked up a pair of binoculars and studied the road ahead. He could see the highway ahead was littered with the remains. Valentine had been a small community of less than a hundred people according to a twisted green sign clinging to a single upright post. It was hard to tell now, but Steve guessed there had been thirty or forty buildings before the storm but the force of the tornado had reduced all to a pile of debris. Trees were stripped of leaves and torn from the ground and now were scattered amid the cars and trucks of undeterminable ages and colors. Water stood along the road and in the ditches within the destruction that had been Valentine.

“I don’t think we can get through there.” He paused then added.

“Should I turn around?” Zack asked.

“No.” Steve glanced at the instrument panel. “We don’t have the gas to go back to the state road to change our route.” He pointed to a water-logged dirt path to the west. “Head that way. We’ll try to go around.”

Zack slipped the truck back into drive and turned onto the dirt road at the side of the only remnants of the building still standing.

They rode over the mud-covered path for half a mile passing the back of what was left of a school. Little remained that suggested the remnants of walls were the Valentine School but the remains of a sign. All that was left was a pile of adobe-colored bricks that had been the foundation and twisted white metal from the roof. Amid the remains of the gym stood a mud-smeared basketball backboard with the shredded net in silent witness to what had been destroyed. Clothing and toys littered the grass around the yard of a nearby demolished dwelling. Within the destruction was a small body impaled on a vertical pipe. As the truck rolled past, the child’s head raised and turned toward the sound while the remaining arm reached out.

“Oh, God.” Darlene began to cry softly as she tucked Penny close.

Steve pointed in the distance. “When we get away from the debris field we can head back north then back east and get back on the highway.”

Zack left the mud path and steered the truck around a stump. The wheel jerked as the pickup bounced over rocks and water-filled puddles while the vehicle and trailer creaked and groaned with the uneven terrain all the while the wheels spun on the layer of mud.

“This is getting worse,” Zack announced.

“Keep going,” Steve answered. “Don’t stop.”

Zack turned the steering wheel back to the west, and the truck was more than a mile from the community, and the ground grew more challenging on the vehicle with each passing minute.

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