The Dead And The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Author:Susan Beth Pfeffer [Pfeffer, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: thriller

chapter 9

Monday, August 1

"Watch out for that rat," Alex said to Julie as they walked home from Holy Angels. Every day there were more dead, and the rats were getting larger and more daring.

Julie dodged the rat. "Sister Rita doesn't know what we're going to do if the sun doesn't come out soon," she said.

"She'd better think of something," Alex said. "The sun isn't coming back for a while."

"I really worry about the string beans," she said. "They're my favorites. Lauren likes the tomatoes best, because there are so many of them, but the string beans remind me of summer." She laughed. "I guess it is summer," she said. "Do you think it's cold like this at the convent?"

"Probably," Alex said. "It's probably getting colder all over the world."

"Brittany —she's my new best friend—she says her father says the strong will survive and everyone else will die and the world will be better because everyone'll be strong," Julie said. "Lauren says the meek will inherit the earth, not the strong, and Brittany says who wants the earth anyway, so the strong might as well have it."

"What do you say?" Alex asked.

But before Julie could answer, they both felt a rumbling underfoot, the way it used to feel in subway stations. Only now they were outside, and the subways weren't running anymore.

It lasted for about half a minute. Alex and Julie stood there, frozen. The few other people walking down Broadway had the same shocked looks on their faces.

"Earthquake!" a man shouted.

"You're crazy," another man said. "This is New York, not California."

"I used to live in California," the first man said. "I know what an earthquake feels like and that was an earthquake." He looked thoughtful. "Four point five maybe," he said. "Nothing serious."

"Was it really an earthquake?" Julie asked Alex as they resumed walking.

"I don't know," Alex said. "Does it matter?"

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