Suffer the Children
“Mercy Hospital produced about three tons of garbage every day, and it all flowed through these Dumpsters. Sharps, body fluids, lab waste, surgical specimens, animal carcasses, common waste.
And blood.
Lots and lots of blood. Enough to keep his kids alive for days. Maybe weeks. It was all there on the other side of this chain-link fence. No protection, no surveillance.
For once, his knowledge of garbage had given him an edge over everybody else.
Or so he’d thought.
In theory, the blood was easy ...to get. The hospital put the infectious waste into bright red bags. Later, it was burned in the incinerator. Above fourteen hundred degrees, nothing survived. The ash came out germ-free and ready for the landfill.
Until then, the bags piled up in these Dumpsters. Lots of bags.
Over the past five weeks since Herod’s changed the world, Doug had learned the rules of the game. The first thing he’d learned: It was rigged against him.
He didn’t care anymore if his kids drank blood like vampires.MoreLess
And blood.
Lots and lots of blood. Enough to keep his kids alive for days. Maybe weeks. It was all there on the other side of this chain-link fence. No protection, no surveillance.
For once, his knowledge of garbage had given him an edge over everybody else.
Or so he’d thought.
In theory, the blood was easy ...to get. The hospital put the infectious waste into bright red bags. Later, it was burned in the incinerator. Above fourteen hundred degrees, nothing survived. The ash came out germ-free and ready for the landfill.
Until then, the bags piled up in these Dumpsters. Lots of bags.
Over the past five weeks since Herod’s changed the world, Doug had learned the rules of the game. The first thing he’d learned: It was rigged against him.
He didn’t care anymore if his kids drank blood like vampires.MoreLess
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