Get There: (Originally Published In The Print Anthology A RED HOT VALENTINE'S DAY) - Plot & Excerpts
It was what she always needed after a shift outside. Hours spent in the stink and the heat of the city. Hours spent ramped up on adrenaline, terror so constant she could no longer feel it as anything but an absence of emotion. Her neck and back and shoulders ached and burned from carrying her pack, her weapon, and, more rarely, live bodies to safety. Most often the bodies she carried were already dead when she piled and burned them. Too many of them were the Resurrected. First a hot shower, though the water always got cold too soon. Eventually, she supposed, the city water would stop pumping altogether. The generator would run out of gas, and she wouldn’t be able to get any more. But not today, Lira thought as she tipped her face to the rapidly cooling spray and rinsed away the grime. Please. Not today. Shower, then a quick meal of whatever the day’s cook had put together, or maybe something from one of the foil pouches they were supposed to be saving but had already begun digging into when the fresh-food supplies dwindled.
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