His neck was stiff from lolling to the side, propped as he was on a hard wooden bench. He blinked heavily and remembered. It was late afternoon. He was sitting in Bill and Aggie Carter’s living room, in what he considered the most public room of the house. He remembered choosing the spot out of c...
A sinister orange glow drew him onward. He did his best to move silently through the underbrush as he followed the low murmurs of fevered chanting. Soon, the crackle of flame buried his worry about being heard and replaced it with the worry of being seen. He need not have worried. The white-robed...
The leaders of Teeny Town knew the stakes on this long-dreaded day and found themselves waiting impatiently for the man who had fostered their way of life. Bill walked into the conference room at the town hall and noticed for the hundredth time that it looked like a throwback to a smaller version...
I think he believed he should have done something to keep Francine alive, but eventually Mom convinced him that it was not his responsibility. At any rate, that’s the good thing about the end of the world. It keeps throwing new stuff at you to keep you from thinking about the old stuff.Dad always...
Even in the late evening darkness, she was clearly showing the guilt and pain of what she had undertaken on a long day of wholesale killing of the Dragon army. Bill understood completely, but refused to take much of the blame for how it had turned out. He had been at the table when Kirk had writt...
He had once heard his pappy talking about driving down these old Coffee County roads in a 1991 Trans Am, usually at incredibly high speeds, to hear him tell it. Terry tried to imagine it, but kids of his generation didn’t dream of cars. He felt lucky enough to have a bicycle. His bike was handed ...
He and Bill were retracing their paths through the cornfields, heading back to Teeny Town. The village had been established right under the collective nose of the county government, the official local authority of the reconstruction of America. As they approached the huge defensive gate between t...
Perkins Copyright 2011 J.F. Perkins Kindle Edition Website/Blog: http://www.jfperkins.com Renewal 5 – An Untimely Fall Chapter 5 – 1Terry had only known Bill for a short time, yet found himself frightened and shocked by the fury in the older man’s eyes. Bill, the 48 year old leader of a succe...
The normally empty courthouse lawn was covered with people, ordinary citizens in typical work clothing, and not a sad face among the crowd. Apparently Dusty’s propaganda was working. Terry honked Big Bertha’s air horn to make a path through the swarm. People in the street moved out of his way, ba...