Instant Chaos by Mark J. Russell & JJ Holden

Author:Mark J. Russell & JJ Holden [Russell, Mark J. & Holden, JJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP
Published: 2019-11-11T22:00:00+00:00

Joshua’s eyelids flung open in the pitch darkness—lying on the couch in the living room, he was dead certain that someone was outside his door.

Before going to sleep that night, he had taken one of the chairs from the table and pushed the top under the doorknob of his apartment’s entrance. Supposedly, that would keep the door lodged shut if someone were able to open the lock, though he wished he had more confidence in the chair’s ability to keep the door secure.

But what if someone was outside his door?

He strained his ears but heard nothing; it must’ve been his imagination running wild again. That was all.

He tried to make himself relax, but there was a knot in his stomach, and the hair on the back of his neck was standing up. His brain could say there was no one there all it wanted, but his body wasn’t buying it. And that’s when he heard the doorknob turning.

Crack!

Bang!

The door flew open, and he heard the chair splinter against the wall. He reached for his hip, but he wasn’t wearing a handgun. What had he done with it? He slid off the couch onto his knees and felt across the top of the side table. It wasn’t there. He got to his feet and felt along the kitchen table, but it didn’t appear to be there either. There was someone in the room, Joshua could hear them moving about, but he had no way of protecting himself from the intruder. He remembered setting his pistol on the bedside table in the other room.

Joshua struggled to see through the dark, bumping into the couch. Whoever was in there with him, he couldn’t see them. Skirting the couch, he rushed toward the back of the apartment where the bedroom was, where he’d left his pistol.

Racing past the open door and the shattered chair, he headed for the space where he knew the bedroom door was located. He was almost there when he felt a sharp pain at his jugular, clotheslined by a strong arm across his neck—he ended up on his back, and in the next moment, he strained to breathe as the intruder straddled him.

The clouds moved away from in front of the moon, and Joshua was able to see the face of the man above him. It was the stranger who had approached him earlier.

Joshua twisted and bucked, struggling to get out from under the man, but it was no use—he couldn’t dislodge the intruder. He went for his opponent’s eyes with his fingernails, but the man wasn’t interested in fighting.

Instead, the man struck Joshua on the side of the head with something hard, and the world quickly went black.

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