Epilogue To Suburbia

By Jon Collins

A dark short story set in the near future.

Two people put on anti-contamination suits and re-enter a zone that has been out of bounds for several years. But what will they find, and what secrets are still to be revealed?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jon Collins
• Release date: Nov 4, 2010
• ISBN: 9781458056986

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EPILOGUE TO SUBURBIA

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Jon Collins

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EPILOGUE TO SUBURBIA

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They wear the suits. It would be stupid not to, whatever the boffins might say; the techs have been wrong before and the plans offer little scope for error. They don each item of the layered costume following an unspoken routine, checking the seams and smoothing the seals before moving on to the next. Finally they check each other, working through the same, subconscious tick list. It is so like the dry runs, the training exercises: they must have repeated each step hundreds, if not thousands of times. This would be just another test drive… but for one, unique factor.

The smell.

The smell is all around them. It is the smell of disuse, of things long since rotted, of dust settled years ago, of the remnants of pollution left by decades of rain. It is the smell of past death, of where fear used to be, and it permeates even into the sterile, filtered environment of the converted