To Major Thompson, any town meant potential danger and they sped up to pass through quickly. They had stopped outside of Lordsburg to acquire decontaminated water for drinking, but from there, the sole focus was to put an eye on the Northerners and stick with them. It wouldn’t matter that they we...
She’d had a carton of Camels back at the mansion and now she didn’t even have a used butt in her pocket. Crappy time to go cold turkey. Cigarettes… dishonorable discharge – she and the knuckleheads inside, and of course, Bob. They’d all been part of the same supply company. The black market for c...
Robert Tran lay in bed, frustrated that his tiny opportunity to catch up on sleep was once again spoiled by his nagging subconscious. His brain had been tickling the back of his head for days. The researcher for the Centers for Disease Control knew the signs and it kept him awake with annoyed ant...
He hit the ground from a twenty-meter leap and only had to take a few bounding steps to slow down, keeping the momentum up just enough to bounce up the side of the crater and stop at its lip. In the distance, the remains of the crashed cop ship were still leaking enough vo...