Jacqueline Druga - No Man's Land

We made it to Mama Mavis’ place in three days after leaving Sanctuary. I never saw one person so happy to see me. It was the right decision to go back there.

Perhaps one day, for Hannah’s sake, she and I would brave another road trip, maybe to Montana or just to see the world and meet other people. We would wait though, it was still too dangerous. People made it dangerous and it would be up to people to make it better again.

Life as we knew it was gone. No television, radio or internet. There were no new books to read, or songs to hear. Pockets of society thrived while others deteriorated. News traveled by word of mouth, and it was few and far between when we saw another person.

One day the Vee would disappear. Each generation would grow smaller, and eventually there would be no more.

Until the world was truly purged of the monsters, both living and dead, Hannah and I would stay put at that little farm on the border of West Virginia and Kentucky. We were given a chance not just to survive in a dying world, but to be alive.

For the time being, we’d take it day by day, grieving our losses, grateful for the chance at life, and hopeful that somehow, someway, I’d live long enough to see the better world I knew was ahead for us all.

Copyright © 2017 Jacqueline Druga

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Published by Vulpine Press in the United Kingdom 2017

ISBN: 978-1-910780-69-5

Cover by Claire Wood

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