When the Peace Is Gone by P. A. Glaspy

Author:P. A. Glaspy
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Action & Adventure, Dystopian, Fiction, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Women
ISBN: 9781910780480
Publisher: Vulpine Press
Published: 2017-06-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Alan Byers had never really held a steady job. The last one he’d had was as a day laborer on a demolition crew. He had been on that job site when the power went off. If not for all the equipment suddenly stopping, they might not have known right away that anything had happened. A job site is a pretty noisy place until all the power tools and forklifts shut down. The foreman had instructed them to continue working, as they could still be manually moving materials and cleaning the site up. It didn’t dawn on him that a normal power outage would not have taken out the equipment but as soon as one of the gofers tried to start his car to go on a coffee run, that brought things to a screeching halt. Everyone ran to their own vehicles to see if theirs would run. Most of them didn’t. Alan’s 1960 GMC pickup did. He laughed, flipped off the rest of the crew, and peeled out of the lot in a plume of dust, with his former co-workers running behind trying to get him to stop. He didn’t know what was going on, but it sure looked like it might be his lucky day. He headed home to see what Rich and Steve thought about the situation.

Alan had been friends with Rich Hawkins and Steve Carpenter most of his life. They met in middle school, stayed friends through high school (from which none of them graduated), and now lived together at Rich’s house. They had gotten into trouble with the law on occasion, but never anything major. The sheriff’s deputy, Tim Miller, was another buddy from high school; only difference was he managed to graduate and landed a job at the department. He mostly left them alone if he found them on the wrong side of the law, unless someone else was around, like the sheriff, then he’d come down a bit harder on them. They never stood before a judge though – even if he locked them up, he’d let them go the next day, the charges mysteriously dropped.

Alan had to go around quite a few dead cars on the way there. Folks were waving and hollering for him to stop, but he just kept going, laughing and throwing empty beer cans from his floorboard at them. Stupid snooty assholes. Your high-dollar rides ain’t worth shit now, are they? He was feeling pretty smug when he finally pulled up to Rich’s place about an hour later. Rich lived in his dad’s old house, which was pretty much the only thing he got when his old man died. It was out in the boonies, so they could drink, shoot, and raise hell all they wanted without anyone calling the cops – not that it was really an issue if they did. Steve was already there, since his pizza delivery job was on the night shift. They were sitting on the front porch drinking beer and laughing when he pulled up.

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