Weathering The Storm (Book 2): Surge by Soward Kenny & Kraus Mike

Author:Soward, Kenny & Kraus, Mike [Soward, Kenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Survival
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2019-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Jake, Boston, Massachusetts | 6:01 p.m., Wednesday

“Let’s have a look at that leg,” Jake said, crumpling up his granola bar wrapper and putting it into the small pile of garbage on the table. “Alice, can you throw our garbage away, please?”

The little girl looked at him like he was crazy, but when he raised his eyebrow at her, she gave a big sigh, grabbed up the wrappers, and marched them into the kitchen to find a garbage can.

“You know, the entire city is a big, giant mess,” Marcy said, sitting down and rolling up the leg of the shorts she’d changed into. “I doubt anyone will complain about some wrappers left out on a table.”

“It just seems important that we clean up after ourselves,” Jake said as he lined up a new set of bandages and tape on the table. “It feels good to have some semblance of normalcy, right?”

“I see your point,” Marcy said. “It does feel like we’re clinging to the edge of sanity.”

“That’s probably an understatement.” Jake inspected the bandage on the top of Marcy’s thigh. It was soaked with saltwater, and there was a small dot of discoloration in the center.

He plucked at the edge of the bandages and pulled them up gently. It was good medical tape and clung to Marcy’s wet skin, though he eventually got the old bandage removed and tossed it on the table. He pulled apart the wound and then pressed it together again, watching as a yellow-white substance oozed from the cut.

“There’s pus,” Jake said, shaking his head. “Your body is doing a good job fighting off the infection, but it’s going to need some help. I’ll have to sweep for antibiotics. One of these houses has to have something.”

“Maybe there’s a drug store around.”

“Possibly. First, we need to irrigate the wound a little better,” Jake said. “We’ll need to make our own saline and probably some more drinking water, too. There’s water all around us, and no place to boil it. The stove here in the kitchen probably doesn’t work…” Jake let his words trail off as he thought about it.

“Depends on if it’s a gas stove or not,” Marcy said. “If it is, and the gas line is intact, then we just need to turn it on and light it.”

“I checked in Alice’s apartment, but that stove was electric,” Jake said, glumly. “Still, you’re right. There have to be hundreds of gas lines running beneath the city. Maybe this house has one.”

He stood up and walked past Alice and into the kitchen to have a look at the stove. It had the big, bulky burners that he associated with a gas stove, but he wanted to check behind it to make sure the gas line was turned on.

Putting his hands on the front of the stove, he worked it back and forth, pulling it away from the wall. Once he’d moved it about a foot, Jake leaned up on the counter and peered behind it. A thick

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