Return from the Apocalypse by Blake Pitcher

Author:Blake Pitcher [Pitcher, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vintage Blue Publishing
Published: 2016-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

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The undercooked rabbit meat slides around in his stomach and his clothing clings damply to his skin, but Roger feels things are looking up. He is filled with the near satisfaction of completing a trip, regardless of its ultimate outcome. The trio traverses potted roads and overgrown fields that cover sloping hills. The sun is out in its full strangeness, but despite its deformation, its rays still warm. Chelsey leads Roger to an old farmhouse alongside a long forgotten road.

The farmhouse stands resolutely amongst fenced-in fields, aging but sturdy barns and other outhouses. The fences are in good repair; horses chew grass behind the rails and ignore them as they walk up the drive, save a careless whinny.

A stablehand greets them casually as they walk up to the long front porch lined with empty rocking chairs. Chelsey speaks with him; if she drops a passcode Roger certainly can’t tell, but they are graciously invited inside.

“His office is over here,” they are told, and also that ‘he’ will be with them shortly.

Like waiting for a doctor, Roger thinks as they stand idly in a plain room with faded wallpaper and a beadboard ceiling. A chess set is arranged in the early stages of a game on a wide pine table.

Roger recognizes the opening move— a queen’s gambit. Chelsey toes the floor impatiently. Dixie wags her tail.

The door swings open with a creak and a young, bespectacled man enters, his neatly shined boots tapping against the rough cut floorboards.

“Catch anything, lately?” The man smiles broadly and points to the table with the chess set. “Or maybe you have time for a game?”

It takes Roger a moment— he hasn’t seen the boy, or man, rather, in years. But the name finds its way to his lips in the form of a question:

“Ernesto?’

“Hola, Roger. Long time, no see.”

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