The Mushroom King: The Tale of Surviving a Nuclear Holocaust by Roy Slade

Author:Roy Slade [Slade, Roy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-04-24T21:00:00+00:00

Once the heart rates had receded, a towel had been pressed to the door in an effort to staunch the blood. After the event and the bourbon, everyone collapsed. No meal was prepared. Not one among them claimed an appetite. Gunner and Susan opted for a nap, even though it was barely noon by the watch. Mark, Carol, and Trey had moved to the warehouse where Trey was cleaning his rifle before storing it, as he had been taught since childhood. His mother and Mark were concerned for his welfare after killing the three men. He appeared fine outwardly, but Carol knew the shock of reality had yet to set in. She stayed close, in case he wanted to talk about it. He didn’t.

Only Emma and Harley were left sitting in the big room and they quietly chatted to keep from waking the, now silent, baby girls.

“Do you think there will be more people like those when we go outside?” she pointed towards the door.

“Well, Darlin’,” he was determined not to sugarcoat it for her. Innocence was at an end for these two high schoolers. Once they stepped over the shattered corpses laying in the stairwell and out into a new world, they would have to become adults in a hurry. Something told him Emma would fit the bill without a problem. She had a strength about her that wasn’t just the imaged invincibility of a teen becoming a young woman. “I’ll be straight with you ‘cause I think you can handle it.”

“When we leave down here and go up top, we’ll only be able to spend a few hours up there at a time. We’ll have to limit our exposure, until we know for sure what the radiation levels are,” with her attention glued to every word, he thought it best to cram as much info in this little chat as she could hold. “We’ll have to wear dust masks and hats at first, no matter how hot it is, at least until we get some rain to wash the dust particles out of the air. We don’t want the rain until we are ready though.”

“That doesn’t sound all that bad,” she tried to grasp what wearing a mask all day would do to her hair.

“We’ll have to wear plastic bags on our feet while we’re outside so we don’t drag radiation back in. Trey and I laid in a healthy supply of those. If the levels are still bad, Trey will rig a gravity shower upstairs and everyone will have to be hosed down before coming back in here.”

“Do you really think it’s going to come to that? I thought the radiation dropped quickly… like tenfold every seven hours or something?” although a shower sounded very good, Emma was not looking forward to the prospect of having to take that shower every day to keep from being poisoned.

“I’m giving you the completely ‘worst-case-scenario’, Kiddo,” he looked directly into her eyes. “That way it will be a pleasant surprise if it turns out not to be the worst case.

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