The Rain (A Post-Apocalyptic Story) (The Rain Trilogy Book 1) by Joseph Turkot

Author:Joseph Turkot [Turkot, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopian, Teen & Young Adult
Amazon: B00HLWOVD2
Published: 2013-12-28T06:00:00+00:00

Dusty is so filled with excitement that he tells us everything that happened after I passed out. He first recounts everything we did before that too, making sure Russell hears every detail of my heroic attacks against the face eaters. Dusty says that after I was shot and he sat me down, he ran into another room that was packed with them, but there were a group of tarp dwellers too, and there was a short gunfight. And they all went down, the last of the face eaters. One of them they kept alive to try to question, he says, but it wouldn’t say anything that could be understood. The man was foaming at the mouth, and it’s true what folks have been saying, Dusty says. The face eaters have taken a great big supply of the drug. What’s the drug? I ask. He tells us it’s a stimulant they take, something to keep the hunger off their minds, but that it really ends up making the hunger worse, and makes them keep going long after they should be dead. And sometimes, it stops their hearts straightaway, but most of the time it just makes them more crazy than they already are.

I think about the one that was blown apart but still crawled toward me on the floor. It had to have been on the drug. The thought scares me. And Dusty then says they’re banding together more and more, making their assaults in unison for some reason. He can’t explain, and his dad hangs his head like he’s right, and there really is no explanation. Then the woman just looks at us and says they must want our flesh all the more now. All the more. And that’s all she says and then she walks right out of the infirmary and leaves us all alone. It felt like she was holding something back and I wonder if Russell felt it too but I can’t ask right now.

“What happened to you?” I ask Russell, still not having heard a word from him about what happened in the infirmary.

“He’s a hero too,” says Dusty’s dad. I look dumbfounded, unsure of what he means. Then he goes on to tell me what happened. He says after the gunshots got closer, Russell shot right up out of bed, high fever no matter, and went to the rear shelf looking for a gun to help defend. And that’s when one of them burst into the room. I was there too, with my gun, but it was Russell that took him down, this face eater. It was crazed. One of the deranged ones. High on the speed. Russell just took up one of them chairs there, and I never saw a head explode from a chair before. But this man’s did. He looks at Russell and grins, and Russell looks down, showing no happiness at the reminiscence of what he did. He looks distracted all together, like he’s thinking of Leadville, and somehow, he’s seriously considering taking us out into that boat again.

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