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16 Aug 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jaime on the mike, antarticsun.usap.gov Naomi and Jason had just come down the stairs. I noticed they both had a bright smile, which I thought strange, given the circumstances. As I stood up from my seat to give Charlie back his post and as Jaso...
15 Aug 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Grapes of Wrath, numerocinqumagazine.com Naomi had made contact with Australia, with some official in Sydney, delighted to hear from California. She had Jason inform Sacramento, but they couldn’t catch the signal so we acted as a relay statio...
15 Aug 2022 13 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Oakland and Bay, en.wikipedia.org Although our nation had been hit by surprise, with our computer networks and our defences seriously compromised and all electronics taken out by four EMP blasts across the continent, Claire’s prewarning had not go...
14 Aug 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Ruskie radios. spectrum.ieee.org “Wait, that’s a good point” Jaime added. “They must be far better than ours and have all the channels, military and civilian and a power source too. Claire, were you ever taken to this safe house somewhere on Cha...
14 Aug 2022 15 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A deserted Bay Bridge ca.hotels.com I woke up in my bed, disoriented. It was morning. I could tell by the texture of the light. I saw, standing around my bed in a circle, not only Claire, Naomi and Scout but also Jane, Mary and Samantha. “I mus...
13 Aug 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Scout guarding the pump. ebay.com At the beginning of the path we’d made the day before, where the brush was thicker, there stood Scout, like a sentry. “You can’t come in” she stated. “Why not?” I asked. “They’re taking their first forest shower,...
13 Aug 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The treasure. nutsvolt.com We left him alone to organize his gear. Jaime and I spent the rest of the afternoon filling gas cans for the generator, siphoning it from the useless cars. We went through the camper next door, finding two more empty g...
11 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The car that worked. Stangbangers.com I awoke in Claire’s arms, or, more poetically, her charms. Her eyelids must have opened the same moment mine did, dewy-eyed and happy. We smiled, inches apart, to a new day, having no idea what that might fo...
11 Aug 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The EMP blast, sciencefriday.com Jaime's story continued: “He disappeared on us. We were tailing him as he left this house. We wanted to take him with us. But he stopped his car next to Tilden park and began running. My associates lost him. H...
