Lovelock Extraction Short Story Release

25.12.2069 UNITED NORTH STATES WANTED BULLETIN: JEMA WALKER, 16, 5’10”, 130 LBS, OLIVE SKIN, DARK HAIR, DARK EYES, ASIAN DESCENT. WANTED FOR THREE COUNTS OF MURDER, CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. IF YOU SUSPECT YOU’VE SEEN HER, CONTACT 911 IMMEDIATELY. LAST SEEN APROX. 100 MILES SOUTH OF THE UNS BORDER WITH TROY MASTERSON, UNINCORPORATED GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO.

25.12.2069 UNITED NORTH STATES WANTED BULLETIN: TROY MASTERSON, 18, 6’2”, 175 LBS, BLOND, BLUE-EYED, CAUCASIAN, WANTED FOR ONE COUNT OF MURDER, CONISDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. IF YOU SUSPECT YOU’VE SEEN HIM, CONTACT 911 IMMEDIATELY. LAST SEEN APROX. 100 MILES SOUTH OF THE UNS BORDER WITH JEMA WALKER, UNINCORPORATED GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO.
 
26.12.2069
Troy clicked off the radio. “Well, happy Christmas to you too. I’m glad we didn’t listen to that yesterday.”
I rubbed the medallion and ID tags hanging around my neck. I couldn’t think about the men I’d killed, or it would drive me crazy. “There’s nothing on vaccination centers. Why aren’t they distributing the cure? It’s been a week.”
Wrapping his hands around mine, Troy kissed my forehead. “They have to clean and retrofit a plant, scale up. It takes a while.”
I shook my head. “Dena already had the production location picked out. I heard them talking; it didn’t need any customization. They should be setting up distribution locations. I don’t get it. Hundreds of people are dying every week, and soon it’ll be thousands.”
“Why withhold the vaccine?” Troy hooked his fingers in my belt loops.
“You trust Owen and Dena after what they did to us? After they’ve refused to share the technology with other countries?”
“No, not on a personal level. They formed Lovelock to develop a cure. Things like this take a while. You’ll see. They said they’d send crews to Europe and Asia after the plant was up and running. Aren’t we taking a break from saving the world?”

...Four months earlier Jema and Troy were shipped to the desert to avoid an epidemic flu. Now they're hiding out in the same desert. Can they avoid detection and a life of being used as lab rats? Will they figure out a way to get the cure to everyone around the world? Read the first of the story in the Deadly Reality Anthology out today! Over fifteen short stories from all genres great for quick reads.

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To end, I wanted to include a few fun facts about the prequel to this short story, Lovelock Ones. Lovelock Ones is named for a cave in Nevada that served as a home for people as early as 1450 B.C.. Lovelock Cave is situated near the now dry Humboldt Lake. The lake and surrounding marshlands, now a dry desert, offered early settlers access to food like fish and duck. Duck decoys dating back to 400 B.C. were found in the cave. The Paiutes, a Native American tribe that inhabited regions of Nevada around Lovelock, have legends of red-haired giants, the "Si-Te-Cah", a cannibalistic and aggressive tribe that were defeated by the Paiutes at the site of Lovelock Cave. In Lovelock Ones, the Lovelock Cave site served as a base camp for the group evading the epidemic plague Jema and Troy join with their families.

Hoping to see everyone in November! Happy reading!
Tricia