This Plague of Days, Season Three: The Final Season (The Zombie Apocalypse Serial Book 3) by Chute Robert Chazz

Author:Chute, Robert Chazz [Chute, Robert Chazz]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Ex Parte Press
Published: 2014-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

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The Spencers were quiet for a long time. Anna tried to read her mother’s mind again, but nothing came.

“Suppose that telepathy,” Theo guessed, “travels on energy flashes between people? What if there isn’t quite enough energy for the whole network at once, like rolling blackouts? The connections are loose and incomplete. Can't complain. The Internet was down a lot, too. Sometimes, before the plague, we had surprising intuitions, like knowing a long, lost friend was finally calling out of the blue.”

“I wish we were the last people on Earth,” Anna said finally. “Maybe God only took the perfect ones and left us sinners to deal with each other as a punishment.”

“I’ve thought about that, but Jaimie’s still here, so that can’t be true,” Jack said.

“Thanks a lot, Mom.”

“I’m joking, sweetie. You’re perfect, too. I just mean God doesn’t work that way.”

“Nice save, but look around. No wi-fi, no Starbucks and no air popped popcorn. No boyfriend. We must be in hell. I’m glad you still believe, Mom. I really am. But how you can be so sure what God is about anymore? I don’t get it.”

Jack sighed. “All I can say is my God is not capricious in his wrath. If He were, He wouldn't be God.”

"Maybe it's not God," Anna said, "but whoever's in charge…well, look around. If humans ran the universe, everybody would live in Disney, work at tropical resorts and there'd be a new Iron Man movie with Robert Downey Jr. every month, forever. Weed would be legal and everybody would live a long, happy, healthy life. We would not be worried about Lt. Carron, or the white-eyed monsters from the Brickyard.”

"In God's defense, we were working on marijuana legalization when the plagues hit." Jack said it sourly, but Anna giggled.

Jaimie wanted his dictionary back so he could palpate the curves of the letters of the word capricious. It is such a good word, Jaimie thought. The dictionary is my Bible.

Jack's head snapped around to Jaimie, excited. “I heard that bit of blasphemy, young man!"

“Me, too!” Anna said. “Great. Even more people must be dying."

They tried again, but no matter how hard Jaimie tried to communicate his thoughts, radio silence. The Way of Things didn't want his family to know the course that had been set. If they knew, they might try to flee.

A bargain had been struck and fate could not be refused.

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