Surviving the Blackout: A Post Apocalyptic EMP Thriller (Surviving the EMP Book 4) by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2019-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

When Susan reached the ice cream van and saw no sign of Tommy, worry took over.

They’d been here a month now. The early days had been good. The rations had lasted, and people seemed to have an understanding that supplies were limited, so they just had to make the most of the supplies they had.

But gradually, as the days passed by and hunger grew, things had grown more strained.

The police started to tighten their grip on the supply chain. After a week, conflict broke out. A child was killed.

And the people who were left, police included, were forced into a very precarious situation that felt like it was going to fall apart at any moment.

Susan thought about getting away. She thought about escaping and making a break for it on the road.

But she still thought this place was safer than the outside.

She’d seen the horrors of man.

She knew the kinds of evils in this place.

She didn’t want to risk facing the unknown.

At least in here she knew exactly what she was up against.

“Tommy?”

She looked inside the ice cream van. Then she scanned the derelict streets. It was quiet. There were only about eight of them left now. They didn’t particularly get along. Hunger was growing. Dehydration took its grip every day.

But they powered on, because they had to power on. They had no choice.

She ran up the street. Passed by a man called Steve.

“Have you seen Tommy?”

Steve glanced up at her as he sat there reading a book. He shrugged.

“Thanks,” Susan muttered. “Very helpful.”

She kept on running down the road when she noticed something, then.

She stopped.

People.

There were people at the end of the street.

They looked strange, unlike any group she’d seen. Some of them were wearing white.

Most of them were holding knives.

They looked like they were some kind of religious group.

Or some kind of cult.

Sergeant Ben Wisdom stepped up, lifted his rifle and pointed at them.

“Wait,” Susan said.

“No time to wait.”

“But Tommy—”

“I don’t give a shit about Tommy,” he said. “Now step out of my way and let me deal with these bastards.”

Susan shook her head. She couldn’t believe how Ben had grown so cold. But then with the things he’d done, she supposed it added up. He’d lost his grip, and that grip was slipping even more by the day.

It was what he had to do to maintain control.

“Move,” he said, his angry eyes peering back at her. “Right this second.”

She held her ground.

Then she stepped aside reluctantly.

Ben lifted his rifle and pointed it off into the distance.

“Good,” he said. “Now we fire.”

He pulled the trigger.

The people in the distance dispersed. They ran into the side streets. Some of them disappeared into buildings.

With the click of a finger, they were gone.

Ben lowered his rifle. “See? That wasn’t so hard.”

But there was something in the distance.

Something Susan could hear.

A cry.

Her skin went numb. Sickness hit her like a wave.

That cry.

Like an animal.

An animal that hadn’t been put out of its misery.

She didn’t even think.

She ran off towards the source of the cry, towards the people in white.

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