FollowRead previous episodes here Petra was on her second cup of coffee when the tablet chimed and her browser locked up. As she tried to scroll, a dialog box appeared. Congratulations on reaching Dillon. As a reward, we offer you another quest. Successful completion may alleviate your transportation dilemma. Failure will result in a strike …
Links to Part I and Part II Petra woke as the bus left I-15 and entered Salt Lake City’s downtown. She looked at the clock on her tablet. 4:12 PM. They were only five minutes behind schedule. That wasn’t too bad, she thought. In her experience, buses always ran later than five measly minutes. They …
See Part I here Petra saw the first hints of sunrise as she returned to the lot where the car was parked. All but dead on her feet after the obstacle course, she needed some sleep. She was still wearing the outfit from the challenge since her clothes were gone, which wasn’t optimal. But, she …
Petra waited nervously behind the curtain. She knew there were two other people on the stage with her, but she couldn’t see them because of the walls of the booths each of them were in. She could hear the noise of a crowd on the other side of the curtain, an indistinct murmur that rose …
This story takes place in the same universe as “Welcome To the Shitshow.” If you asked them, most people would say they were not doing well living in the ruins of society. Jake Hess, however, wasn’t most people. If you asked him how he was doing, he’d have said, “Eh, I’m okay.” That’s about as …
The apocalypse wasn’t going the way anyone expected. I mean, we were sitting around in our pajamas, binging Netflix, and trying to find toilet paper instead of sporting leather and chains while wandering the barren wastes searching for water/gas/food. Calling the current situation “dystopian” might not have been the most accurate description, but it felt …
“What the fuck, man? How did we go from being the most feared motherfuckers in the state to the guys people call when their fucking cat’s up a goddamn tree?” Skinner rolled his eyes at Junior’s questions. The boy set way too much store on his reputation as a “bad guy”, he thought as he …