After Days by Salina Anderson

Author:Salina Anderson [Anderson, Salina]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Published: 2016-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17 – Is there anyone out there? – More than three years ago

For several days following Matts strange awakening in the city in the nude, he stayed at the cabin in hopes that Maya would show up. He busied himself with cleaning the place and making sure everything would function when she did finally make it home and spent his evenings hiking through the woods in search of some kind of animal that had survived. He was disappointed each night as he only found carcasses and further proof that the virus had truly left nothing untouched.

After a week at the cabin, he realized that he needed to start taking some sort of action. At least look for survivors. His first step would be to go home and see if his house was still standing and if anyone in the town had survived.

He was enveloped in sadness as he drove away from the cabin. He had so hoped that he would be reunited with Maya and felt that his miraculous rebirth was a sign that his life was on the right track. What had happened to her? He was determined that he would find her and he would get her back. The end of the world had finally made him realize that he had not been truly alive all of these years. You can’t be without your soul mate and still be alive inside.

The drive back to his place was tedious as he kept running into roads filled with cars. Often times the drivers were just a rotting corpse and other times they were empty. He figured that the majority of the dead had succumbed to the sickness but quite a few of them had been murdered in acts of violence. There were some horrific car accidents as well that he came up upon and he had to tap into his time as a volunteer firefighter to get past the death and destruction without being sick.

When he finally reached home, he was happy to see his house was still standing but the town was like a ghost town. He knew it had been a pipe dream to think his friends had survived when everyone else had not but it was that hope that had kept him going this far.

He was grateful that he had built his house to work off the grid since there would no longer be electricity to rely on. Some of his lights were still on and it seemed strange to see them after his week of being in the dark.

He had rebuilt the original log structure and turned it into the kitchen with vaulted ceilings and then had continued to add on section after section in an effort to keep himself busy so he couldn’t dwell on the life that he felt he would never have. Besides the kitchen, he also had two living areas, 5 full bathrooms, 2 half baths, a huge laundry/mud room and 10 bedrooms. Above one wing of the house he had used the lofted area as a library and the lofted area in the other wing served as his office.

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