After the Apocalypse

A pandemic survival story

Season five, Episode twelve – “Burn” 

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An animated 3D Defender Bioceutical logo rotated slowly on the screen. The old man’s crew had managed to get a generator running, and with it, the backup power to the facility.  

At least enough to get the main systems back online.

“ Developing a Better Future” scrolled slowly, left to right, as a reminder. A reminder of the vague and poetic aspirations of corporations that were often an apologia for malfeasance.  

The computer was in the office of Roger Updike, Chief Information Officer, better known to all present as ‘Rabbit’.  

The password to access the machine, they had discovered, was, of course, “Jonah”. 

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After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode eleven – “Politics”

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Congressman Alvingham looked out of his office window. There was some sort of interaction going on at the fence. His guards were turning yet another group of refugees away. There was a scuffle, and a shoving match started. They were shouting and angry and the guards needed to draw their weapons. 

One refugee was a bedraggled older woman. His guards pushed her to the ground. When she recovered her feet, they shooed her away from the fence. It looked like she was weeping. 

The congressman rubbed his eyes. Running this new world wasn’t always easy. 

But the important things never were. 

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Brent did not know how long he had been sitting in the chair. 

He had been focused on staying relaxed and using the time to calm his mind, but he was starting to get unsettled.  

Unwanted thoughts crowded into his composure.

He had to go to the bathroom, and as much as he pushed the thought away, he knew he’d need to make an uncomfortable decision soon. 

His breath under the hood smelled garlicky and unpleasant, and hard to ignore. 

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After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode nine – “Screech”

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Some kind of animal shot out from behind the lab cages and leapt at the old man.

And then chaos!

The old man fell on his back, and rolled on the floor, with his arms up trying to protect his face and head from the frenzied attacker. 

A whirlwind of vicious blows assaulted him as he rolled across the floor trying to find cover. 

Someone shouted, then there were screams. 

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After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode eight – “Fort”

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The active, angry cawing of crows fighting over carrion broke Brent from his morning sleep. 

At first, he was disoriented but quickly came to the present. 

The truck roof. 

The dim light of a new day.

Fort Manning.

It felt like there were more crows now. The old joke was that rats and cockroaches would survive any apocalypse. Brent thought crows might give them a run for their money. Maybe the crows were just better at surviving in this new world where humans had been pushed back by the plague.

Filling the void. 

Taking advantage.  

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After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode seven – “Convoy” 

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It took a long three days for Brent and his small convoy to go the 150 miles to get to Fort Manning.

The roads were bad. 

Abandoned vehicles blocked the highways. 

It was like this everywhere. 

Pathetic human chaos frozen in time. 

As the virus struck and panic overcame the populace, they took to the roads trying to get away. 

Or maybe to get somewhere else. 

People run from disaster. They run from fear. But they often don't realize that the place they are headed is no better than the place they started.

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 After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode six – “Conceit”

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The corpse by the door didn’t shock anyone. They were used to the dead. At this point, nine months into the apocalypse, even the most reclusive of them had seen dozens of corpses. 

It was a corpse world, inhabited by corpses. 

They, the living, were the strangers in this world. 

“It looks like he was trying to get out.” Chester, one of the boomers on the team observed. 

“Made it this far.” The old man added, stooping over the corpse which was face-down and reasonably well preserved in the dry, air-conditioned environment of the Defender HQ. 

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After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode five – “Entrance” 

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The Defender Bioceuticals building sat back from the road behind a large, well-manicured lawn like a nouveau-riche idiot’s version of corporate Versailles. The whole facility was surrounded by a large masonry wall topped with a robust combination of security fencing, tastefully screened by landscape plantings. 

The expansive lawn was carved into a faux Victorian formal garden.

“There’s no way over that wall.” Zane observed. 

“Place is buttoned up like Fort Knox.” The old man agreed. “Seems like overkill for a pimple cream factory.”

He was referring to Defender’s number one consumer product, a wonder treatment for adolescent acne. It wasn’t, however, a cream, NeoSpront was a daily regimen of pills that cost over two hundred dollars a month. 

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Why hadn’t she stayed with Grace and Teri? She could have. Janet probably should have stayed and maintained human contact. Built a tribe or a new family. Found a way.

But she didn’t. She couldn’t.

The wounds were too raw. It felt too soon. Too soon to let new people in. This new world of chaos and dying had systematically torn away everyone she loved. She wasn’t sure she could take it anymore. She didn’t know if she was strong enough to take that chance. 

An emotional shell was calcifying around her psyche, and she felt like a scared and angry child hiding in a closet from a terrible and unforgiving monster. 

So, she shut the world out.

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After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode four – “Search for the Cure”

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The small, yellowish, bones were strung on a piece of fishing line. They dangled from the man’s clutched fingers. 

“Take another step and I end you man!” He threatened. 

The muscles of his neck stood out taut like cords and he seemed to vibrate with malignant energy. 

His eyes were narrowed with defiance. His fists clenched. He was like a cornered wild animal.

The Corporal glared in response. 

It was a standoff. 

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