The Days Alive - Time of Doors Season 1 Episode 3 (Book 3): Post Apocalypse EMP Survival - Dark Scifi Horror (Time of Doors Serial EMP Dark Fantasy Apocalyptic Book Series) by Eddie Patin

Author:Eddie Patin [Patin, Eddie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Lost Woods Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-04-28T04:00:00+00:00

8 - Tommy and Jody Shelton

Flagstaff, AZ

Tommy wiped the tears from his face and returned his arms to his sleeping sister, who clutched at him with grubby hands. The sound of his nylon parka shell scratched against her jacket as he laced his fingers together behind her back.

It was dark now.

The day had passed slowly with absurd breaks in concentration.

The boy lay on the lumpy ground amidst gravel and clumps of crab grass, the weeds poking at his legs and socks, holding his sister up against his body.

She was passed out now.

He thought about the last several hours.

At first, madness clawed at his mind when they sat there silently under the street, listening to the monsters eating the bodies of his dead parents just above them. Above Tommy’s head, a couple of feet worth of concrete, asphalt, and whatever else was all there was between him and his sister, and the wet, bloody masses of flesh and clothing that used to be Mom and Dad...

The boy listened to the beasts up above crunching, slurping, and pulling bones apart with their claws.

Sometimes, they talked to each other, like lions grunting over the body of a dead gazelle...

Or maybe they were telling each other to stay away from their respective meals.

Every once and a while, Tommy would hear the grinding of heavy claws on asphalt as one of the creatures sat up and roared with a splitting, metallic sound, shortly before seemingly breathing flames into the air!

The boy didn’t understand how, but he knew that the monsters were making fire somehow. Every time it happened, he saw the yellow flash at the edges of the road, and saw the air shimmer for a moment. He thought, once—or maybe he just imagined—that he could feel the heat, too...

It wasn’t long before his sister gave up on waiting it out and just went to sleep against his chest. She sank into a fitful nap that made her grimace and whine little grunts from time to time.

Eventually, Tommy drifted away, too.

When he opened his eyes and saw that they were still lying in the ditch under Sitgreaves and Dale, the boy cried.

It was real.

It didn’t feel real, but it really happened...

Just a little while ago, they were a family. Mom and Dad—his dad especially—were the center of his whole world! Tommy went to school, played computer games and painted pewter figurines, had a decent collection of Stephen King books, and this was the year he was going to go deer hunting with his father!

His eyes fell down to his backpack, sitting up against a chunk of concrete.

There was an empty Diet Coke plastic bottle half-buried in the sand under his pack. A shard of green glass stuck out from the ground next to it.

His dad gave him his .22 revolver. That gun was still in his backpack, wrapped up safely in his robot shirt.

Tommy loved his dad.

And he loved his mom, too, even though she always took Jody’s side. Tommy still loved to lie up

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