The Trunk by Linda Mooney

Author:Linda Mooney [Mooney, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, aliens, Alien Invasion, alien contact, Post-Apocalyptic, Apocalyptic, action, sensuous, survivors, Time Travel, Romance, Dystopian
Publisher: Music And Press
Published: 2019-06-09T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Shift

Emlee went downstairs and dropped into the closest chair. She listened closely to what was going on outside. It wasn’t long before she heard the screams of people emerging from what had been their homes, crying for help to come rescue a trapped loved one inside. That was stage one. As soon as everyone realized there would be no help, as soon as they figured out what had caused the destruction, stage two would come into play.

Panic.

“I gotta get away from here,” she stated, and thought about her options. Her gaze went to the small horizontal windows along the top of the basement. Getting to her feet, she went over to the only solid chair where it sat against the far wall and took it over to place underneath one of the windows. She’d been able to tape the sheets she’d torn from the magazine over them by standing on tiptoe, but she needed a boost to be able to crawl out of one.

The windows had a small lever at the bottom of the frame, enabling one to open it up and outward. She managed to release the catch, but the window wouldn’t budge. She tried pushing on it, pounding on it with her hands, but the window remained intact. Undaunted, she moved to the next window, with the same results. She briefly considered getting something heavy and smashing the glass, but she feared attracting attention. Plus, there was the chance she might cut herself while trying to squeeze through it, and she couldn’t risk it.

She crossed her fingers and tried all five windows. She knew that many people gave up after the first or second try to succeed, but she’d learned that sometimes it could be that last one in the row that produced results.

That was not going to be the case this time. Every window remained permanently closed.

“It has to be because of the ceiling cave-in,” she figured. “The house must’ve settled or something.”

Fear started to worm its way into her lungs, making her breathe more erratically. Emlee closed her eyes to center herself, and when she opened them, she saw people standing outside in their yards and on the streets. Dealing with the loss of electricity was one thing. A lot of people, if not everyone, had experienced an outage at some point in their lives. Same for cell phones not getting any signal. But the inexplicable and widespread destruction of their homes and neighborhood was freaking them out, especially when there had been no major storm to cause such damage.

A woman screamed and pointed to something in the distance, which Emlee couldn’t see. But she could guess what was causing others to also yell and gesture. In fact, she knew exactly what they were staring at in wide-eyed horror.

The motherships, for one.

The multiple plumes of smoke and fires, for another.

They were witnessing the end of civilization, and they had no idea of what was happening. Worse, they had no clue of what to do next.

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