Wolfman Apocalypse (1) by Brannan Black

Author:Brannan Black [Black, Brannan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BB_Wolfman1
Published: 2012-04-27T08:24:37+00:00

Brannan Black

Wolfman: Apocalypse

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The smell of coffee brewing blew me away. Where the hell had they found coffee? I found the old-fashioned percolator on the antique wood stove and helped myself. Hmm, heaven!

I wondered how long oatmeal stored? It looked OK and smelled tasty, but it had to be at least four or five years old. The women and kids were eating it without apparent concern so I dove in. Didn’t taste quite the same without raisins and brown sugar but hey, we’d all learned to do without those little luxuries.

The woman manning the kitchen pointed me toward Mace. They had set up trestle tables and benches for breakfast. Two women in work coveralls joined us at Mace’s urging. “Gadget and Wrench will show you around. Once you’ve seen what we have, I want to know what you can do for us.” Gadget’s real name was Patty and Wrench was Lori. They gave me a tour of what they’d done. Cisterns on the roof gravity-fed water to the showers and kitchen, when not frozen in the winter. They collected rainwater and snowmelt in them but also hauled water up with a bucket system from the nearby river. Heating consisted of wood burners in the main room. Most of the rooms they’d built themselves and had no heat.

The old offices had been converted to living quarters for the women and children.

Those rooms were old enough to have the original radiators and the boiler still worked.

Lori’d built a water supply to replace the city water. She’d earned her nickname the hard way.

The building looked more like a factory than the warehouse I’d first thought. It had a square shape with a nice southern exposure and solid brick construction from around the late eighteen hundreds, maybe early nineteen hundreds. They’d boarded over all the ground-level windows for security.

The building next door housed a diesel generator and an old steam engine. The old boilers still sat next to the engine. How fucking lucky was that? A little repair work, hook the generator to the steam engine and they’d have lights. Assuming there was good wiring, transformers… light bulbs… Sigh.

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