The Nothing Men by Kazzie David

Author:Kazzie, David [Kazzie, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian | Infected
Publisher: Grub Club Publishing
Published: 2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

They made it back to the car just as night had leached the last bit of light from the sky. Ellie had parked in a small scenic overlook cutout, providing a panoramic view of the park. Months of neglect had left the parking area overgrown with weeds as nature had begun to reclaim what was rightfully hers. That had been an interesting phenomenon; with a radically reduced population, many lawns and gardens and parks had gone unattended and had begun to devolve into their natural state. He wondered what the world would look like a decade from now.

She handed him a thermos of coffee. He drank it greedily and with scant regard for the skin on the roof of his mouth, which the hot liquid promptly sheared off. He didn’t care. The chill had sunk deep into his core.

She started up the truck and a moment later, they were on the move, bouncing down the narrow dirt road. She drove fast, her handling of the Jeep pure and true. After about a mile, the trail intersected with the main road; she turned left and raced north into the darkness.

Their discussion had left his head swimming, Ellie pulling the curtain back on the way the world was now. He’d been so caught up in his own existence, the universe of Ben, that he hadn’t had a lot of time to think about the larger picture. As brutal as Whitmore’s destruction of the camp had been, it hadn’t been all that surprising. What scared him was the notion that the government wanted to keep things this way, and worse, that the people were content with this new status quo. He thought about his son Gavin growing up in a world like this.

Calvin’s last words suddenly came back to him. Jesus! How could he be so stupid? The raison d’etre for his trip to the mountain! It reminded him of one of the first cases he’d worked on as a new lawyer. He’d glossed over an important internal memorandum they’d obtained during discovery, one that devastated their opponent’s position. He was so inexperienced, only schooled in the theory of law, not the actual day-to-day practice, that he had not yet learned that good lawyering was often nothing more than good-old-fashioned detective work. And had his supervisor read him the riot act on that one. He spent the next six months working ninety hours a week, fueled by high-octane terror that he’d be shown the door.

“I saw Calvin right before he died,” he said. “He’d been shot, and he was just barely conscious. He did manage to say something just before he died.”

She slammed on the brakes, and he felt even dumber now for not having already told her about Calvin’s statement. The Jeep fishtailed and stopped in the middle of the road. The headlights cut a channel of white light into the pitch blackness.

“What was it?” she asked. She wasted no time inquiring why he hadn’t mentioned it already. Another glimpse into the no-bullshit persona of Ellie Campbell.

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