After the Apocalypse17 Des 2022

Season 3 Episode 9 – “Exit Wounds”

After the ApocalypseA Pandemic Survival StorySeason 3 Episode 9 – “Exit Wounds”

A warm, bright, morning sun lit up the parking lot.

Becca looked at the ragged group of five that had just arrived.

There was a middle-aged man, a young woman, and three children. They were like something out of a Victorian slum – Ragged, dirty clothes, long matted hair, and faces smeared with filth.

In a previous world they might have been a family, or at least that would have been Becca’s default assumption.

But, in these times, a closer inspection would reveal that there was no family resemblance among them. They were not a family in the traditional sense – those had been mostly destroyed by the sickness.

They were the new version of ‘family’ created in this desperate new world of isolated survivors who were driven into small communal groups by the chaos.

The apocalypse had shaken the world apart and now it was beginning to settle into these small clumps of humanity.

To Becca they were all starting to look the same.

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