Tag: fiction for adults
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STATE OF DISASTER 21
Twenty-One “Plagued” Date Unknown Time unknown Location unknown The first thing he noticed—the thing that smacked him in the face—was the stench: dirty people, dead people, human waste of every sort, smoke and dust, and all of it poisonous. There was no telling the dead from the dying, the smell was the same. He dropped…
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STATE OF DISASTER 23
Twenty-three “Garden Party” Condemned Town, Abandoned 5 January Friday It was hard to get Hippie to settle down and accept the fact that he shouldn’t go alone, that he needed assistance—backup, as Robin put it. So finally, he gave in and it became a full investigation by MHI. Sandy was the only reluctant member. She…
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STATE OF DISASTER 24
Twenty-four “The First Lady” Hippie went home under the exaggerated need to check on things because of a deep freeze. He really did check his furnace, and made sure no pipes had frozen, taking a further precaution to let faucets run at a trickle in case the gas supply was interrupted, but mainly because he…
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STATE OF DISASTER 26
— Twenty-six “Odeal” USS Maryland Leyte Gulf 29 November, 1944 — Strafing Zekes and Oscars weren’t the problem, terrible though they were, but it was up to the Kamikazes to first terrorize, then kill men on whatever ship they dove towards or took a run at. Their cockpits packed with explosives, their pilots resolved and…