The Enduring: Stories of Surviving the Apocalypse
“She called. That frightened me. It was so unexpected. She’s dedicated to her job – she never interrupts her work to phone me, so when I heard her voice, and the tone of her words, the panic became real.”
“What did she say?”
“She told me to get Colt from school, now! She said the hospital was forcing her to stay to help with the sick. She said people were being brought to the emergency room in fits of uncontrollable rage. She was scared. It was in her voice. I mean really scared. In the ...background I could hear pandemonium. There were people shouting, and alarms wailing. I could hear sirens too. It sounded like the hospital had become a war zone.”
I paused for a moment to write everything down Chad had told me and then stared thoughtfully at my notes. A breeze rustled across the ground, sweeping away the leaves from nearby trees. It was very quiet, here in West Virginia – so quiet that the sound of the silence as we stood there was almost deafening.MoreLess
“What did she say?”
“She told me to get Colt from school, now! She said the hospital was forcing her to stay to help with the sick. She said people were being brought to the emergency room in fits of uncontrollable rage. She was scared. It was in her voice. I mean really scared. In the ...background I could hear pandemonium. There were people shouting, and alarms wailing. I could hear sirens too. It sounded like the hospital had become a war zone.”
I paused for a moment to write everything down Chad had told me and then stared thoughtfully at my notes. A breeze rustled across the ground, sweeping away the leaves from nearby trees. It was very quiet, here in West Virginia – so quiet that the sound of the silence as we stood there was almost deafening.MoreLess
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