Yesterdays Gone: SEASON TWO (THE POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIAL THRILLER) (Yesterday's Gone) by Sean Platt & David Wright

Author:Sean Platt & David Wright [Platt, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: post-apocalyptic serial
Publisher: Collective Inkwell
Published: 2013-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

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The garden was at the back of the property, behind the hangar, a favorite spot for the three grown-ups in their group. While Linc was technically part of their group, he’d been steadily spending more time with the members of the church, which left Mary feeling like Desmond and Will were the only adults she could truly count on here.

The garden had two long stone benches. The trio always sat on one, Desmond and Will on either side with Mary in the middle, huddled close together to ensure their chatter didn’t carry too far.

“You should’ve seen it, Mary,” Desmond whispered. “It was some fucked up shit, the way they got their ‘confession.’ If I was a kid like Carl, getting tortured by a pious dickhead like Rei, I would’ve confessed to stealing the Lindbergh baby!” He shook his head. “Rei’s every word was insidiously chosen to led the boy down a series of feelings and then fed him the answers they wanted from him. Carl didn’t stand a chance. It was expert manipulation and mind control!”

“What did he say?” Mary asked. “Rei, I mean. Not Carl.”

Desmond gritted his teeth. “I remember it word for word: ‘Do it for both of you. The punishment for girls is far less strict than it will be for you. You will be helping both of you by admitting the truth. The Prophet is a great man, a loving man. He’ll be looking for any excuse to show mercy on the child. Give him one, Carl. Allow God’s grace to spare your life.’ I’m telling you both, if I’d had my gun I might’ve emptied it on ‘Brother’ Rei. Maybe John, too.”

Will whistled as Desmond finished his eerie impression of Rei. “Des is right. I thought I was gonna have to pull him back.”

“What did Carl say?” Mary asked Desmond.

“The only thing he knew that would get the shackles off his wrists. Rei didn’t really give him a choice; he told Carl to admit that Rebecca seduced him. You should’ve seen that asshole’s smile, like a pedophile clown at a kid’s birthday party. Carl started crying, saying that, ‘Yeah, that’s exactly how it happened, the picnic was all Rebecca’s idea,’ and adding that he only agreed because the devil made him do it. He finished with, ‘and that’s the honest truth.’ Rei just kept on smiling his pedoclown smile, then signed his masterpiece with, ‘The truth shall set ye free.’ The ‘ye’ made me want to crack his skull. John was just sitting there watching the farce play out, enjoying every moment. Worse, he was watching me watch them! I don’t know if this was some kind of power play by John, a ‘look what we can do if you step out of line,’ or if he honestly felt that I needed to see how ‘justice’ was handled here.” Desmond shook his head, teeth gritted, stewing.

“I don’t mean to piss in the pool,” Will said, “but is it possible Rei was actually looking out for Carl? Carl could have been sentenced to death for taking Rebecca into the woods.

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