Outbreak: A Survival Thriller (19 page)
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Authors: Richard Denoncourt
They carried flashlights and
pistols, though I only know that from what Pete told me the following day. When
he realized what was happening, he quickly ushered everyone out. I didn’t see
it for myself, but I imagine he was wearing what my father liked to call “a
shit-eating grin” and silently thanking the Almighty for one hell of a story.
He would tell it regularly for many years to come.
I don’t blame him. You see
,
none of those things—the bed breaking, our neighbors
bursting in—was enough to get our attention. Having made it to the
mattress, Melanie and I just kept going. We didn’t stop until sunrise.
My father had a saying I always
liked:
“Nobody lives forever.”
EPILOGUE
Excerpt from
The Clean
World Gazette
, Raleigh, North Carolina
August 24, 2030
SURVIVALIST
“HERO COUPLE” GIVE BIRTH…
AGAIN!
Only weeks after their ten-year
wedding anniversary, famed survivalist couple Kevin “Kip”
Garrity
,
31, and Melanie Reis-
Garrity
, 30, will add a healthy
baby boy to their growing family. Known for their bloody escapades in the early
days of the Hunger Virus epidemic, the lovebirds already have an eight-year-old
son, Max, and two daughters, Alice and Sarah, aged six and four, respectively.
They declined to comment on whether they saw any more children in their
family’s future.
The couple gained fame and notoriety
after a radio interview in which they described a harrowing supply run into
their hometown of Peltham Park…
~
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Richard
Denoncourt is also the author of
Savant
,
Trainland
,
and
Ascendant
. He studied literature
and political philosophy at Colgate University and received an MFA in Creative
Writing from The New School. At the age of 26, he moved to Cartagena, Colombia
for two years to finish Ascendant, the epic novel that took him almost a decade
to write.
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