The Dark Roads by Lemmons Wayne

Author:Lemmons, Wayne [Lemmons, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Published: 2016-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

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Calgary, AB

April 8, 2021

9:12 PM 94*F

In the western region of Canada, the sun had set and night swallowed the earth along with everything that lay upon it. All was silent, most of the people and almost all of the animals being long dead, and few sounds would be made until dawn returned to burn things that were nearly beyond burning.

A fire had been started two nights before at a department store where much death had been brought. The concrete shell of the place, though singed by the heat of a blaze that had burned through all of the night before, remained intact.

A door opened on the ground, dragging the remains of an aluminum skeleton slowly along it's track, and a person climbed to the surface of the place. The person seemed shocked for a moment, said something to those following him, and stood waiting.

The surprise left him, almost before it could register, and he went about the task of helping his companions out of the hole in the ground. Each of them took the time to look at the damage that had been caused as they hid, their ignorance of the goings on evident in their postures and the looks that they gave to each other. Soon, though, they joined the first to come out and left the shell. There was nothing they could do about this ruined place.

Three men and a woman walked north and west along a seldom marked highway. Sometimes they walked in a cluster, seeming to draw strength from one another. Other times they walked in a single file to be isolated within themselves.

When they spoke to each other, it was quiet and careful. They were in sync in some internal way that told them what they needed to do and when they needed to articulate.

To an outsider of the group it would be considered odd, possibly even eerie. Few beings learned how to be with people void of the complications that come with most relationships. The common goal they shared, survival for their group at any cost, set them apart from the rest. Even the newest addition to their circle had caught on quickly and become one of them without knowing it.

One of the men led them naturally without ever having been elected to do so. The other two would surely die for their leader as he would die for them. The woman was becoming a sort of glue that would hold them together in a way they hadn't been before. Without her to reinforce the union they'd already created, it was possible for their foundation to crack. With the addition of her presence, the foundation had been made stronger than ever before.

They walked until they found the next place to be. They walked until someone tried to stop them. They walked.

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