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by
Kyla Stone
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July 17 - October 20, 2022
The bag carried her Springfield XD9, holster, spare 9mm ammo, and a grand in tens and twenties. It also contained a Lifestraw water filter, water bottle, roll of duct tape, space blanket, solar electronic charger, fire starter, radio/flashlight combo, a compass and paper map of Florida, a few dozen meal replacement bars, and a medical kit.
There were five critical elements for survival: shelter, food, water, protection, and a plan. They had the shelter and some food. Now they had to work on the rest.
“It’s called the seven-ten rule,” Dakota said. “For every seven-fold increase in time after the detonation, there’s a ten-fold decrease in the exposure rate. Or, when the amount of time is multiplied by seven, the exposure rate is divided by ten. “In a nutshell, in twenty-four hours, the radiation dose will be at ten percent of what it is now. In forty-eight hours, it will be at one percent.”
“Just remember that rem refers to the amount of radiation in an area, while gray refers to the dose absorbed by a person. 100 rem is equal to one gray. And the exposure is cumulative.”
“I know this one,” Shay said. “Between one and two grays the typical person succumbs to acute radiation syndrome, with nausea and vomiting, headaches, and lethargy. Many people can survive lower doses of radiation, but at higher levels, it will kill them.”
You faced the future with courage or cowardice; it was coming for you either way.
safest option. She took off for the shed,
If they were lucky, the passengers in the sportscar would lack the situational awareness and sharp eye required to see what didn’t belong.
“It’s those people who trust a corrupted, broken system that they know is broken to take care of them that are the real crazy.”
“Everything is more fragile than we want to believe it is. Those people who are prepared? They’re the smart ones.”
“I’ll be fine,” she said to the question he hadn’t asked. “Thank the Lord I survived. Don’t worry about me. I’m blessed, is what I am. Jesus would be out here helping the suffering. We show love through our actions, don’t we? It’s the least I can do.”
“Common sense is like deodorant…the people who need it most…never use it.”
‘We don’t need them in Syria protecting the Syrians, we need them on American soil protecting Americans.’”
“Fear will be what destroys us, in the end. Terrorists can’t destroy America and what it stands for. The only ones truly capable of destroying America are ourselves.”
There are good people still fighting the good fight. America is too strong to be defeated by this.”
Maybe it wasn’t the ones with the most skills and resources or the strongest physically who survived in the end—it was the resilient ones. The ones who got knocked down just like everyone else, but they always got back up.
Religion isn’t the same as God. Religion isn’t faith. It took me a long time to understand that. Religion can be a lot of rules and traditions to follow. It’s not always bad, but it’s not always good, either.”
God doesn’t cause evil. But God can work through something terrible to make something good come out of it. That’s what I believe.
That we were put here to ease each other’s burdens, to help each other.”
“Throughout time, there have been religions who’ve claimed to speak for God who instead heaped great harm and suffering upon others. But God isn’t in those people, whether they call him God or Allah or Jehovah. God is a God of love.”
God is love. A man or woman who doesn’t show love in everything they do doesn’t know God.”
Whatever hurts you’ve both suffered, the only thing that’s gonna heal you is love. God’s love, and love from others.
“Consider the fact that less than fifteen percent of heroin and thirty percent of cocaine is intercepted by authorities worldwide,” Hawthorne said. “Seventy to eighty-five percent of illegal narcotics get through. No one wants to admit it. But it’s the truth.”
“I happen to believe that God is a proponent of self-defense. In Esther, God’s people were allowed to defend themselves against those who would murder them. The Israelites certainly defended themselves against all would-be attackers. Don’t worry about my soul.”
Great evil has been done throughout history in God’s name. Trust me, God hates it more than you do.”
“Someone I respect once told me that we can’t change the past, but we can decide whether we let it control our future.”
God’s love never changes. God is love. Love is the gift that God gave to humanity. Real love cannot be twisted into evil. Shame, fear, and power are the devil’s tools. Love never destroys. It only builds. Love never controls. It does not coerce. Love believes in choice above all else. For without free will, there is no love. That is its very nature. That is how you know.”
But some things were worth more than your own life. Family. Love. Doing the right thing.
If Dakota were here, she would tell him most people sucked, but the few good ones made the rest worth it. And she would be right.
America is a nation of lost, lonely, angry, desperate people, bristling with dissension and hatred.
Wars are fought in the shadows. The weapons are subversion and misdirection. Propaganda and misinformation. Hacking social media accounts. Infiltrating national power grids. Interfering with elections to plant doubt and suspicion. To turn the people on each other and watch them destroy themselves from within. This was the natural next step. And America never saw it coming.”
“America fights its wars in other people’s countries. Proxy wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen. Ukraine and Afghanistan.
