EMP STRIKE: EMP APOCALYPSE SURVIVAL THRILLER - Book 1 of 4 in the EMP STRIKE SERIES by Thunboe Bo

Author:Thunboe, Bo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Weston Press, LLC
Published: 2021-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

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Dan’s energy was waning but he was almost home. When the Prairie Path crossed Diehl Road, he took the sidewalk west. He was in Weston now, but would still avoid the retail and commercial areas and instead cut through residential neighborhoods—Longwood and Brookdale—to get home. He saw many people gathered together around fires. All heads turned to watch him go by, but no one bothered him.

As he approached Route 59, two men shouted to him from an open garage door. He ignored them, but one of them ran out into the street and blocked his way. Dan pulled off his right glove, stuffed his hand in his pocket, and gripped the gun.

The man was fortyish with a big belly and a goatee.

“Where you coming from?”

“West.”

“And you’re headed east. I see that.” The words sounded like a challenge but nothing in the man’s face said aggression. “But really, man. What’s going on out there? Is it really the Russians coming at us?”

The other man joined his friend, this one tall with a thick red beard and fingerless gloves. He stood behind his friend, making no effort to flank Dan.

“I think it was an EMP,” Dan said.

Red Beard slapped Goatee’s back “Told you.”

“But who did it?”

“I don’t know,” Dan said.

“Whoever did it will invade us.” Red Beard’s voice held conviction. “That’s why they did the EMP like that. To leave all the buildings and stuff up.”

“But they’ll wait until we’re half starved—or full starved—and can’t put up a decent fight.”

“Have you heard anything from the government,” Dan asked. “On a radio—”

“Nothing works.”

Dan frowned. “Good luck.” He stepped around them and continued on, the two men arguing about the Russians behind him. Excited, not scared. Just wait, he thought. Soon enough the ugly things he’d seen out on the road would make their way to Weston. Then the fear would come.

Dan crossed Route 59, took Brookdale Road across that subdivision, then cut through the Arbors apartment complex. Its front entrance on Raymond Drive was directly opposite the entrance to Forest View Court. It was a neighborhood to itself, pinched between Raymond Drive and the Paget River with tall cedar fences along Raymond that hid it so well most people drove by without even noticing there were houses on that side of the road.

Dan paused in the shadow of the fake guard house at the entrance to the Arbors and scanned Raymond. There was nothing moving. The entrance to his court was just a gap in the cedar fence crowded with evergreen bushes. He’d be home with Mary and the kids in minutes. He would find them safe and sound because the madness hadn’t made it here.

Not yet.

He darted across the road and down his court, a wave of relief riding up through him.

He walked in the middle of the street. It was after three and the dropping sun threw a shadow in front of him. He turned south down the long leg of the court and there was his house. Mary’s minivan was in the driveway, crooked.

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