The Holocaust Engine by David Rike & Stephen Patrick

Author:David Rike & Stephen Patrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror fiction, post apocalyptic fiction, end of world plague, key west florida, pandemic, dystopian
Publisher: Evolved Publishing LLC
Published: 2020-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

June 21

We still had geography on our side. On an island with only 4.2 miles of land, a few quarter-acre lots of concrete and structure were invaluable. We had a beach and a military base on the north, surrounding several fortified government buildings. We’d even managed to stretch out south across White Street to get to the Chevron and Dion’s QuikMart. Up north, we pushed out to 2nd Street, which got us to Freedom Oil and a Burger King. That gave me control of three of the four gas stations on the island. I didn’t know how much had survived untainted, but it was better than running out. The guys were more excited about the Whopper meat they found in the freezer, which looked like it had reasonably survived the repeating thaws of the rolling blackouts, and the hidden crate of Little Debbie Cakes that Dion always kept locked in his big safe.

The Navy communications slowed, mostly dealing with timing of food drops and brief intel from their daily fly-overs. I hadn’t talked to Tisdale in days. Official communiqués from the United States came addressed to the council, delivered in sealed envelopes from Trumbo Point, my own men serving as couriers. The veterans had been filling me in, but I’d needed them for runs, which left some well-intentioned rookies as my runners. They followed orders better than anyone, which meant my daily “briefing” about the council’s briefing got cut out.

I haven’t been completely in the loop for about two weeks.

I still had the satellite phone, though, and the voice in the middle of the night.

“Please give me good news,” I begged the last time he called.

“They’re moving out of Trumbo—next week, maybe sooner.”

“Thank you. Thank you, Throat.”

“Will you stop calling me that?”

“Of course... just as soon as you stop waking me up at 2:00 in the morning.”

He wanted to know if we’d heard anything on Cauthron’s whereabouts. He said a bunch of other stuff, but that was it—all he really wanted.

I gave him a list of places we’d ruled out.

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