Scenes of the Apocalypse #7 – Venturing Into Dark, Decaying Cities for Food and Family
Today we’ve got a guest post by author Angela White to tell you about her latest book, Adrian’s Eagles. Check it out:
During and after an Apocalypse, people will be trying to find family and food, mostly in that order. They will wipe out local stores and markets, farms and storage bins, and even warehouses and factories. Then they will move onto the homes of the dead around their town or city, until they’re forced to look further outside their comfort zone. Eventually, the only places left that still hold food will be those crumbled and devastated cities that were direct targets of the war. Perishables like meat and milk will be long gone, but there will still be all the above sources the survivors have been using – they’ll just have to find it amid the rubble and danger.
The same goes for family. Would you let an earthquake keep you out of a city that you knew your loved ones to be in? Of course not. You would gather a team and go looking, or perhaps foolishly rush in with only your bare hands. In many places, only foot-travel will be able to get through, unlike the organized team in the excerpt below. This would be the smartest way, an armed clearing crew that would also gather much-needed supplies while they moved through the devastation.
“Seven very gifted survivors are destined to rebuild their country after a nuclear apocalypse…If they can stay alive long enough to find each other. Impossible to put down.” – The Review Blog
As they neared the crumbled city, the mission team was reminded of how these scenes always appeared fake in the movies. Except with the windows down, they could smell the decay and see the bodies still rotting out in the open, eyes foggy, skin mostly gone to predators, and they could hear the hordes of flies that circled and stopped, circled and stopped.
The grass was dead too, replaced with thick mud from the water rising through and over the land. It should have drained, but a fleet of Coast Guard ships had been washed up river by Hurricane Amanda, forming a thick blockade with the wreckage and not enough water was seeping through to let it. As a result, the river had been backing up into nearly every city and town along its banks. It probably would only have taken 2 hours and a little dynamite to clear but no one knew and very few would have been able to do it now. The war had changed everything.
The convoy stopped about a 1/4 mile from the first big piles of buildings, cars, lives and Adrian sat still for a long moment, deciding where to start the assault.
Angela kept quiet, almost able to feel his mind working the problem.
After a moment, he picked up the mic. “There’s a clear street behind that church. We’ll start on the right side of the lot. Once we clear a way in, we’ll be able to travel for a bit.”
No one doubted him, though how he could see it, she had no clue.
Full of realistic and fantasy situations, the Life After War series is a combination of more than 7 genres, so there’s a good chance of everyone liking it and learning a few things about survival at the same time. You can get a free copy at the link below, of the first book in the series. It’s free for all of this year to celebrate the possible end of the world on 12/21/2012.
Adrian’s Eagles Three months after the War of 2012, Safe Haven refugee camp has made it to South Dakota and now holds six of the seven special survivors meant to lead the rebuilding of their country – but it can’t be done until they find a safe place to settle… and who can think of peace when there’s a huge camp of foreign invaders less than a day behind their group and they only want one thing? Safe Haven and everyone inside the light.
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