The Event and Other Stories by Jon Sauve
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Overview: It had been eight days now. He’d walked some, drove some, and had ended up here, four hundred miles from the start. He’d just come from his parents house. They had been the same as everyone else – asleep for all time, waiting for someone to wake them up.
As for Mick, he couldn’t sleep if he wanted to, and apparently didn’t need it anyway. He had thought of taking sleeping pills, anything to catch a break, but what if he did fall asleep?
He stood up and followed the driveway, back out to the road. He stopped and looked both ways. Things were already starting to change. It had been a wet spring, and it was now a hot summer. The growth was incredible; thimbleberry vines crowded onto the shoulder of the road, strawberries were sending out their runners. Maple seeds covered the asphalt in a thin layer. A huge branch had fallen and gotten tangled in the power line. No one had come to remove it.
The world was quiet. Mick wasn’t sure how long everything had kept going, only that the power had just stopped at some point. The first night, with him camped in the middle of nowhere, had been quiet anyway, and he’d put off the distant sounds as thunder. But in the morning he had seen clouds of smoke rising in every direction. Crashed airplanes, trains, cars and trucks.
After he realized what had happened, Mick went to a library to try and find information on nuclear plants. He had planned his route around them, and tried to stay upwind.
Suddenly, as he stood there staring blankly at the road in front of his parents’ house, he thought of the girl.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy Horror
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