After the Apocalypse

Friday Night Feels Hello my long suffering survivor friends, this is Chris, and this is not a new episode, it is an announcement. Life got in the way and I’m unable to release Season 4, Episode 20 today on schedule. If you were one of the 483 members of our Facebook Group you would know this already, but I figured I’d do the respectful thing and drop an audio notice here as well.  This i...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode nineteen – “Escape” ... “Yes, I suppose the virus trigger could have been the result of genetic engineering - that could explain things....” The old man responded in disbelief.  He looked bug-eyed and disoriented in this new revelation.  The General sized the old man up.  He looked at Janet too.  There was...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode eighteen – “Turn” ... It was dark and Brent was feeling his age.  These 5AM morning runs weren’t as easy as they used to be.  But it was his habit and he cherished it despite the discomfort.  Every morning.   Since boot camp.  He’d rolled out of his rack and put in his 5 miles.  Part of his routine.&n...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode seventeen – “Close” ... “How much farther are we going tonight?” Brittany asked. She was carrying the baby in a sling on the front. It was hot. Her face was red with the effort of hiking and her hair stuck in sweaty clumps to her forehead. “We should at least be able to make it up to the road tonight.” The old...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode sixteen – “Duplicity” The General was talking about duty… “But what exactly does that mean?” Brent thought. Duty to what? Duty to whom? As far as Brent knew most of the ‘whoms’ were dead husks, greasy piles of bones in expensive suits moldering on the floors of Georgetown row houses.  Brent’s sense of duty was as strong,...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode fifteen – “Clues” … The old man stood in the shadow of the cabin doorway watching the summer rain drip-drip-drip from the overhanging pine boughs. A dark, wet cloud sat over the island, pregnant with moisture.  It seemed to grasp and squeeze everything, as if the whole lake was locked tightly in a grey tomb.  The wa...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode fourteen – “Island” … The Old Man and Bill the dog trailed Stevey down a pine needle carpeted path. There were handmade wooden signs with yellow inlaid arrows and labels nailed to trees at trail intersections.  There were names like “ Tuckaleechee Path ; and Sequatchie climb . Some called out local features, like Di...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode thirteen – “Tracks” … They hiked up a twisting two lane back road with no shoulders. They were a half-day walk south of the campus now. The narrow road scaled a bluff on the west side of the river. Tangled vegetation leaned in on the uphill side. The land dropped away precipitously on the downhill side behind a rusted me...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode twelve – “Coffee” ... Coffee. It wasn’t great coffee.   But at this point, who complained about coffee?   It reminded Brent of that horrid, watery instant coffee the British drank on his deployment in the UK. Nescafe polluted so heavily with petrochemical derived creamers and sugar that it was more of a sc...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode eleven – “Embers” … Bill the Dog could sense concern.  He could smell worry, tinged with the need for action.  It was time to move. His right hip ached a bit from the effort of chasing down and disarming the kids. The pain was new to Bill. It started after climbing through that window. Bill was made for ac...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode ten – “The New State” … “I don’t care who you were!” The General began. “I don’t care what you’ve done!” He continued. He looked out at the newcomers like an eagle eyeing a field full of rats trying to decide which one to eat first.  His audience was the assembled remnants of The King’s men which Brent had brought back f...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode nine – “the General” ... “I can do all things through him who gives me strength.” The General finished his morning prayer, lifted his hands from the well-worn leather-bound bible, and felt the peace of that practice in his soul.  The bible was a gift from his wife when they first got married. Sometimes they prayed togeth...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode eight – “Post-Natal” ... The mid-afternoon sun slanted through the dining hall windows and illuminated the two boys, Petey and Warren, hunched over large bowls of rice and beans, shoveling food into their mouths like it was some sort of carnival eating contest.  Paul looked beyond the ‘kids’ at the bullet holes in the glass p...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode seven – “Starve” ... Their thoughtful walk and conversation was interrupted by the echo of nearby gunshots and muted shouting - sounds that bounced their way through the campus off the walls of the empty dormitories and old classrooms.  The sounds were out of place and jarring, like derisive curses overheard at an elegant din...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode six – “Hivemind” ... The old man was eager to talk to his son, Paul. Dr. Pannageorgio had confined the old man to his recovery room at the campus, but the old man was feeling better and chafing at the restrictions.  Since his conversation with Jen, he felt motivated. He felt some of the old fire in his belly. He fel...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode five – “Government” … Brad was exhausted. (pause) He had spent the morning supervising the construction of the trench around the perimeter. They were making good progress, but never enough and never fast enough.  He knew Rome wasn’t built in a day but that would be cold comfort when the next storm came. He could not...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode four – “A Fool’s Errand” ... It was a grey day without rain. A slight wind ruffled the trees. Heavy gray clouds pressed down on the river valley.  Even without the rain, the atmospheric pressure drained color from the surrounding forest and made it feel like they were driving through an evil forest tunnel, like something from...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode three – “Purpose” … It was a warm day, but it was cool in the shade.  He sat in a grotto behind the campus infirmary. A light breeze swayed the hanging branches of a large Weeping Willow tree. The dancing greenery filtered the sunlight into splashes of illumination on the patio and long grass.   It smelled like summ...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode two – “Vestiges” ... The brake lights on the lead vehicle flashed bright red. Brent was pulled from his doze by the grab of the seatbelt.  He slid his hands down his thighs smoothing the creases of his khaki pants the best he could and craned his neck to look around the black Suburban for what the delay might be now.  Th...

After the Apocalypse A pandemic survival story Season four, Episode one – “Resurrection” ...   The smell of gunfire lingered in the air.  The storm had passed.  Black clouds, heavy with wind and water pushed east trailing rain like a dirty bridal veil dragging in the muddy grass.  Mags stood on a shipping container and surveyed the area where the battle had taken place. It...

Camping calls me… ... First person. fiction by author Magua Walter Skrzypek (scrip-ek). AKA Magua (Mug-wa) Magua is a modern age outdoorsman, woodsman, hiker and explorer of the lands along with my trusted companion Timber, my pup. He's enjoyed a 30 year journey through healthcare and retiring on good graces to share some tales from outdoor adventures and experiences. With years spent in the fores...

Year 12 - Jeff Brackett Hello, my survivor friends – How are you doing? For those of you time-traveling in from the future it is July of 2023.  Today we present to you another story from one of our fellow survivors Jeff who was kind enough to lend us some audio from one of his stories called “Year 12” "Year 12" is a post-apocalyptic novel, a sequel to the Jeff’s first novel, "Half Past M...

ELECTRIC WITCH The stormy night cracking sways the wind sideway across the skies, the rain drenches her pale white skin as her wickedness freezes it to ice and hail as falling gravel the size of stones. Her eyes a glow send white beams of lightning scanning her surround for those that cower and oppose. Runes in hand and adorning her neck brill her skintight while she reaches with the devils horns....

~ …and the darkness and decay…held illimitable dominion over all~                                                        &nbs...

After the Apocalypse A Pandemic Survival Story Season 3, Episode 20 – “Legacy” ... “Move them out of that goddam trap!” The King shouted angrily at Harlan. “Up the left! Get around that strong point!”   His men had run straight into an ambush on their first approach. Instead of the ‘cake walk’ they had assumed.  The King was angry. This fight wasn’t going to be the pushover he...