After the Apocalypse16 Nov 2024

Season five, Episode five – “Entrance”

After the Apocalypse

A pandemic survival story

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The Defender Bioceuticals building sat back from the road behind a large, well-manicured lawn like a nouveau-riche idiot’s version of corporate Versailles. The whole facility was surrounded by a large masonry wall topped with a robust combination of security fencing, tastefully screened by landscape plantings.

The expansive lawn was carved into a faux Victorian formal garden.

“There’s no way over that wall.” Zane observed.

“Place is buttoned up like Fort Knox.” The old man agreed. “Seems like overkill for a pimple cream factory.”

He was referring to Defender’s number one consumer product, a wonder treatment for adolescent acne. It wasn’t, however, a cream, NeoSpront was a daily regimen of pills that cost over two hundred dollars a month.

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