The Rain - Part 1 by Joseph Turkot

Author:Joseph Turkot
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Dystopian, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction
Published: 2013-10-17T06:00:00+00:00

We didn’t used to live like this. When the electricity was still on, back in Philadelphia, we barely noticed the rain. We lived in an old castle of a building. It was once an Art museum Russell said. Giant columns, rising high above the low lakes surrounding it. Low risk of flash floods. Plenty of food around and in the city. A lot of streets you could still walk through. That was almost eleven years ago.

I remember him taking me to see the bridge. We walked on it. It was called the Walt Whitman, he’d said. It still looked like a bridge then too, but you could see the low-lying building tops under the water, the endless rows of cars, submerged, and the tipped container ships. The ships were important. We went down as close as we could to the docks then, hauling as much food and supplies as fit in our packs. There seemed to be an endless amount of everything then.

Philadelphia had animals too. I saw deer running around, over hills, sliding sometimes, jumping like they couldn’t figure out where to go. Then they all disappeared. Russell said they found a burrow somewhere. I didn’t buy it.

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