The Days After (The Tenth Year) by J. Richardson

Author:J. Richardson [Richardson, J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J. Richardson
Published: 2014-02-05T22:00:00+00:00

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The tax collector army filed into the downtown, spread out on the plaza. Arrogant and full of confidence, the rabble hustled to set up their camp. Just their arrival had always been enough to send any pitiful surviving inhabitants skulking away. The “general”, as he insisted all of the soldiers call him, swung down from the his mount. He tied the horse to a tree, rubbed his gloved hands together and chuckled to himself. The coat brushed the top of his boots as he stalked around among his people settling in. He passed by the wagon where the five women shivered with the cold. He commented that the women didn't smell so good. “Hell, I think you ladies need a good bath,” he laughed out loud. Their eyes widened with fear, they knew he wouldn't hesitate to douse them with buckets of freezing water. He shouted to a man that walked by, “Hey...you! Get me a fire going. Move man! Move.”

The man murmured yes sir, hustled away to get a fire built. The general gloated, a long hard hundred miles from the town up north, but they made it. They arrived in this little town he recalled as usually pretty good and easy pickings. He made a mistake and stayed way too long at the last place. They had picked it near clean and he realized they could not wait for warmer weather to be on the move. No matter, they were here now. If that warehouse was as stocked as it usually was, they would be good here until it got warmer. Yeah, he would get all cozied in here, get those women cleaned up, get his people soothed with some food.

The fire started to blaze up, one of his men brought an old lawn chair from a wagon. The general stretched his legs out in front of the fire. I'll let the word spread that we are in town. Give these chicken sh—ts a chance to crawl into their holes. Later, I'll take a raiding party and we will go visit that warehouse.

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