Stone Age by Ml Banner

Author:Ml Banner [Banner, Ml]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic
ISBN: 0692026061
Amazon: B00JJPYTUO
Publisher: Toes in the Water Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-06-04T05:00:00+00:00

24.

Quiet Before the Storm

6:30 P.M.

Rocky Point, Mexico

Max’s computer slept like its owner, quietly.

His phone’s battery was dead and recharging. Similarly, his body and mind were unconsciously cocooned, recharging in REM sleep. His rhythmic breathing spoke of a peace he had found nowhere else the last couple of days. While a few others around the world—those who were paying attention to the signs above—were frantically preparing for the end, Max had done his work long before others even realized what was happening. Max had earned his rest. So now, he slept.

When Max had returned from the King’s party last night, he was so exhausted he couldn’t even bother removing his clothes before flopping onto his bed. Sometime in the night he managed to wiggle out of his boots; the rest of him lay in a discarded heap, fully clothed and quietly breathing, on his back. He was even too tired to dream.

That day, Max slept through everything. His exhaustion consumed him. He slept through the early morning, not even stirring when several seagulls somehow became confused in flight and hit the side of his house, a few so hard they broke their necks, their bodies coming to rest upon his deck.

Then in the late morning, he slept through Sally vigorously knocking on his patio door, seeking answers to her questions.

Then, in the early afternoon hours, a pelican ran into his satellite dish, killing itself and his satellite dish simultaneously. The pelican’s carcass slid down a course of solar panels before crashing through a glass table on the patio, and coming to rest in a heap of glass, feathers, and blood. The dish dangled over the side of his bedroom wall, tethered by its thick black coaxial cable. Perhaps it was the noise, or perhaps he was done sleeping on his back, but Max rolled over onto his stomach and slept some more.

He even slept through the quiet of sunset, its eerie light calling to him, unheard.

Before finally being awakened by bad dreams and the pounding on his door, he had slept a total of seventeen hours.

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