The Dead, The Damned & The Darkness by TS Alan

Author:TS Alan [Alan, TS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
ISBN: 9781546214700
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2017-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

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A Half-mute Never Forgets

January 11, Day 278.

The return of his Luci had helped to relive his anguish and satisfy his carnal transmute needs, but the New Year had brought tragedy, and Luci had been savagely murdered. So this day he left the responsibilities of the armory and child care behind to seek respite from his stress and torment. Reflecting on the words of Buddha, “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment,” he decided to teach martial arts to anyone who had a desire to learn. It was for this reason that he found himself traveling south, not by foot as he so usually did—and not under the cover of darkness—but in an “Up Armored” Humvee early in the morning with Barkley by his side.

Today was Barkley’s first road trip since arriving to the armory by Stryker. For a long time J.D. kept the retriever locked in the basement before he felt comfortable taking him on walks outside the armory gates. J.D. didn’t like to keep Barkley confined, although the basement was extremely large, but whereas his former canine Max—named for Max von Stephanitz the creator of German Shepherd breed—was intelligent, affectionate and social, Barkley was particular about who he would allow near him. He was very well behaved and affectionate when it came to Katie and Caitlin, but ornery when it came to any male who tried to touch him, with the exception of J.D. This led J.D. to believe his previous owner had been a female. Barkley had also been easy to train, enforcing J.D.’s assumption that Barkley had been an AKC show dog, however it was safer to keep him away from the populace until J.D. was sure he could be fully reintroduced into life with humans.

Barkley’s mild anti-social behavior was acceptable to J.D. After all, if the animal was going to be a part of the armory community the dog needed to earn his keep, and house pet was not what J.D. had planned for him. J.D. was training Barkley to be a patrol dog. Barkley learned quickly and was an obedient canine, except when it came to attack mode. J.D. knew this was because the dog did not have an aggressive nature like German and Dutch shepherds or Belgian Malinois that were the vast majority of U.S. military working dogs. Except one day as the two were on foot patrol a few blocks from the armory, Barkley showed his true potential. He caught the scent of two half-mutes a moment before J.D. had realized their presence. Barkley went into full attack mode, trying to pull the leash from J.D.’s hand to go after the two predators. The sound of Barkley’s furious barking along with a screech from J.D. sent the two stalkers fleeing. Barkley had proved himself as a useful animal.

It should have been a quick ride to his destination, but the city’s decaying infrastructure caused a re-routing due to a massive flood on Chrystie Street a few hundred feet before the intersection of Grand.

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