Backwoods Armageddon by Angela Roquet

Author:Angela Roquet [Roquet, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: comedy, apocalypse, hillbilly, armageddon, earthquake, tornado, flood, redneck
Publisher: Angela Roquet
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Lilly Miller was not one to lose her head in a crisis. She was a firm believer in letting go and letting God. If that didn’t work, she had a bite to go with her bark, and a mean backhand. She didn’t have to use it often.

She was sure she’d seen an angel as they’d come off of Hurricane Deck, and she summed it up to her good deed of taking in Old Man Johnson. Lester was probably right about his reasons for going to their church, but anyone who made a commitment to show up at God’s doorstep every Sunday was alright in her book.

Traffic wasn’t much better when they turned off onto 7 Highway, but at least they were moving faster than five miles an hour now. Toby had switched his scanner back to a static channel, but he turned it down when Lilly asked. Junior had curled up with Ernie and was trying to doze off, but Callie kept insisting he needed to stay awake.

Lilly tried to like the nurse. She really did. After all, the woman had fixed up Junior’s head and given him a professional looksee. Still, the way the woman’s eyes widened and her nose curled whenever one of the Millers spoke just pinched at Lilly’s nerves. And the way she coddled her son like an infant was absurd. The boy was nearly Junior’s age, for Pete’s sake.

A ways down 7, Lester pointed to a highway sign. “We’re gonna cut across AA to get to 65. Should be faster, and it’ll get us outta all this traffic.”

Ricky nodded. “We’re gonna need to fuel up again ’fore long too. I only had six gallons back at the garage, and this thing is a drinker.”

Lester scratched his head. “There should be a station a mile or two offa AA.”

Junior’s droopy eyes popped open. “Can I get some more jerky?”

Lilly stroked his head. “We’ll see.”

Lester found a country station on the radio and everyone was quiet for a while, still winding down from their near-death experience. Lilly passed the time praying. She was pretty sure she was the only one, so she prayed extra hard, not just for her husband and children, but for their grease monkey neighbor, Old Man Johnson, the nurse and her son, and for her ma. Most of all for her ma.

Lilly’s parents had packed up the family and moved from Colorado to Missouri before her freshman year of high school, after her uncle Ted offered her daddy a job chopping down trees around the lake. There were plenty of rich schmucks wanting lots cleared to make way for fancy weekend homes that would probably only be used two weeks out of the season.

They’d lived high on the hog for about a year, and then a tree knocked her daddy and uncle right off the face of the earth and into the lake. Their bodies washed up in a cove and were discovered by a couple of necking teenagers, like God was trying to send them a warning.

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