Razor Girl by Marianne Mancusi

Author:Marianne Mancusi [Marianne Mancusi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Time Travel
ISBN: 9780505527806
Publisher: Shomi
Published: 2008-08-05T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

“Hi, honey, how was school?”

Molly’s mom’s smile seemed strained as she set colorful plates down on the dinner table in preparation for supper. Dad was down in the basement again, not surprisingly. He’d been down there almost constantly for the last week, ever since Molly told him about the monster in the Dumpster. When she’d questioned him later, when he came back from checking it out, he claimed to have seen nothing. Nothing but dead bodies, stacked high. He said perhaps the shock of that nightmare itself was enough to make Molly’s mind go a little crazy. To cause her to see something that wasn’t actually there.

But Molly knew what she’d seen and it was no hallucination. And the fact that her dad wouldn’t meet her eyes made her suspicious that he knew more than he’d tell. But try as she might, she couldn’t get him to say anything more on the subject. Eventually she dropped it. But still, she found herself every day looking in the shadows, searching. Just in case. It wasn’t something she could just forget about.

“Good, I guess, considering half the teachers are out with the Super Flu,” Molly sneered, plopping down in a chair. “They combined all our classes in the school auditorium with the one healthy guy left teaching. The sim-gym teacher! It’s ridiculous. I don’t know why they’re bothering. They should just shut down.”

“Well, you still need an education,” Ashley Anderson said, carefully placing each fork, spoon and knife in its place.

“What good is an education if we’re all going to keel over and die?”

Her mother dropped a spoon, and it clattered to the floor. She squatted to collect it and walked to the sink. After tossing the utensil in, she reached for her pills. Molly sighed. She’d noticed her mother’s hands were shaking and wondered how many happy pills she’d already swallowed that afternoon. It had been a disconcerting development the first time she’d seen her mother take the medication, but gradually it had seemed more normal. A lot of people were running scared these days and overmedicating.

The Super Flu hadn’t stayed a hidden epidemic for long; it was too deadly and spread too quickly for any government intervention to help. By the end of the week it had been all over the news. People were urged to stay home and lock their doors. Close their windows. They’d been assured this would help keep the disease from spreading.

What people had done instead was either: a) pretend nothing strange was happening, b) dose like crazy on psych meds, or c) take the opportunity to stick it to the Man. News of looting was becoming more and more common. Shopkeepers—those who were still actually going to work—had taken to keeping loaded guns behind their counters. Last week three people had been shot.

Oh, and then there was the d) option: preparing for the worst. Some were stockpiling food and water and medicine in a desperate attempt to keep their families safe. Food prices had gone through the roof, as no one was driving the delivery trucks.

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