After the Apocalypse

A Pandemic Survival Story

Season two, Episode Seven “Industrial”

It was slippery and tough going in the industrial rubble by the river’s edge. 

The old man pulled himself up over a concrete slab that blocked the trail. The slab had rebar sticking out of it like the broken bones of an old corpse that had been torn open by wolves.  

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Hello survivors. Happy Thanksgiving! 

Let me say, first of all, that I have been dying to use the phrase “Arms akimbo” in a story my whole life. 

Akimbo is an interesting English word that means "with the hands on the hips and the elbows bent outward at sharp angles". 

They think the word akimbo has some relation to the word ‘bow’ like ‘bow and arrow’ – because the arms are bent like a bow. The first recorded usage was by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales in the 1400’s. 

I’m going to stop right there before I start waxing poetically about Richard III and Henry IV and Iambic Pentameter. 

All in good time. 

Back to the story… 

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