The Great Unraveling (A Preppers Perspective Book 1) (5 page)

Pops took a minute to calm himself and then turned his rheumy old blue eyes towards Dennis and said “listen up my friend and boy you listen close”.

He explained how he had been born right in the back of this store 87 and half years ago and at his age he had nothing better to do but come to work and he planned on doing it as long as the Good Lord would let him and he had stock enough in the establishment to sell. His pleasure in life he said was not making the money, but waiting on and interacting with the customers and community. Because of his ties with the community he said not everything in the store was for sale. If Dennis or them damned Army officers wanted to buy something for cash they were welcome to as long as it wasn’t reserved for a customer or they wanted too much of any one commodity.

He apologized to Dennis for lumping him in with the military cadre and went on to explain that since he considered Dennis a local he would also offer him some store credit because times were tough and you couldn’t even show a dollar if you had one in the bank. The deal was, don’t take it or buy it if you could get by without it because lifelong customers in the community who had no where else to shop depended on what goods he had and as long as they lasted.

Dennis gazed at the man for a second and said “I guess I am pretty well fixed for food at the moment, I would like to buy a six pack of beer for old time sake though.” Dennis replied.

“Buy as much as you want. I would love to run out of beer before I run out of food.” Pops proclaimed.

“Make it two cases then and thanks” Dennis replied and paid for the merchandise and left.

“I am not even going to bother with the stores. If I ain`t got it by now, I guess I won’t ever get it.” Dennis thought to himself.

The intersection coming in town was clear and no signs of wreck appeared.

“I wonder what those two officers were up to. Usually the only reason you would need to know all the back roads to a city was if you wanted to quarantine it. Either they were just taking precautions or somebody decided to amplify the disaster by realizing some kind of bio weapon was probably being used. This was not looking good. Stupid trucks radio don’t work, oh hell I forgot my 9 band world receiver radio.” Dennis was thinking to himself as he was approaching the intersection before the only grocery store on the way home.

“Well they ain`t open and nobody has tried to loot them it appears. The grocery store probably has got a dumpster full of stinking maggot ridden rotting meat in the back unless they somehow got the city to pick it up. Most likely the city government is diverting all the gas they got to police cars and such. I know residential garbage isn’t being picked up and this city is starting to reek. I sure will be glad to get my happy butt out of here.” Dennis mused as he pulled up into his driveway.

“Hey Mom
! I am Home!” Dennis called out as entered the house.

“You made very good time, glad to see you made it back early. Did you come back early because of the news?” His Mom asked.

“What news? You forgot that I don’t have a working radio in that truck of mine. I never got around to replacing that portable transistor one I screwed up by leaving the batteries in it I was using when the main one went out.” Dennis said a bit exasperated but very attentive.

“Oh I am sorry; I did forget you had that problem. You should have carried that one you got in your office.” His mom declared.

“I forgot it, I never even thought about until I got to the edge of town what with loading up and remembering all the rest of the stuff I was hauling with me. What did you hear? They finally tell us who did this?” Dennis said starting to get dark eyed and evil looking.

“The United States has declared war on Iran and undertaken a nuclear retaliatory strike. But that’s not all, China, Russia, France, The UK, Japan and Israel all had attacks and they are pointing fingers at North Korea and Egypt as well as  Al Qaeda as having something to do with it.” His Mom said emotionally.

“Oh my God! That is some serious bad news. Mom we need to realize the world has just gone to hell in a hand basket.” Dennis concluded and reached for her hand to hold to reassure who he didn’t know.

“What happens to us now Dennis? I am scared.” Mom said with tears welling up in her eyes.

“I don’t really know Mom. It scares me to think about it. We will get by somehow; I have tried to plan for us for so long now.” Dennis said getting distraught and teary eyed himself.

“Sometimes I could have done better if I worked harder, but this is all I have and what we got to work with.” Dennis said hating to explain further while berating himself over past decisions he could have assuredly spent more time on.

THE END OF BOOK ONE, A PREPPERS PERSPECTIVE

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