Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

Earth's Survivors America The Dead: The Fold 1
Earth's Survivors America The Dead: The Fold 1
Earth's Survivors America The Dead: The Fold 1
Ebook318 pages5 hours

Earth's Survivors America The Dead: The Fold 1

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars

()

Read preview

About this ebook

Jeremiah Edison sat on the tractor as it slipped and slid its way down the hill through the gray sheets of rain, he let out a sigh of relief once it reached the bottom. For a second there, he had been sure both he and the old tractor would end up in the creek, but God was smiling on him today.
He slipped the worn gearbox into neutral, and sat looking at the rush of muddy-brown water. The creek was a good four feet above the point of flooding. If he didn't move the trees that were clogging the creek, and flooding it out, then he might as well just sit back and watch a couple more cows drown.
Jeremiah knew cows, pretty much anyhow, and every one that he and Maggie owned were just as stupid as any other cow he'd ever seen. The cows didn't understand flooding, they didn't understand how the water could weaken the banks, and so the big dummies just walked on down to the creek, just like any other day, and got swept away when the bank crumbled under their weight. Three days of rain and four dead cows, and though cows were stupid, they weren't cheap.
Jeremiah sat in the pouring rain and stared at the creek. Normally, the creek was no more than eighteen inches deep at the most. Course normal wasn't what it was today, he thought, and wishin' it was wouldn't make it so. It was his own damn fault, he reminded himself. Two of the trees that were clogging it had been there last summer, and hadn't he promised Maggie he'd take 'em out before fall? He had, but he hadn't, and so here he was in the pouring rain fixin' to half kill himself to get 'em out.
Looked like the best way, Jeremiah thought, might be to try and snag the biggest one right from the bank. He squinted as he shielded his eyes to peer through the rain. One thing was for sure, sittin' on the tractor and thinkin' about it, wasn't gonna get it. Reluctantly, Jeremiah climbed down off the tractor and edged closer to the bank. The rain was coming down hard, but the section he stood upon seemed solid enough. "Probably what the cows thought," he muttered as he moved closer.
He walked back to the tractor, unwound a long section of chain from behind the seat, and walked back to the creek. The top of the bigger tree was sticking a good three feet over the bank, and he was glad that it was. He could see that the water was rising faster, and moving along quicker, and he had no wish to get any closer to it than he had to. Quickly, but carefully, he wound the chain around the tree and pegged the links with an old bolt to hold them. Looks good, and solid as well, he thought as he slipped the other end of the chain over the bucket. He genuinely didn't want to try and turn the tractor around. In fact, he thought, as muddy as the ground was, he'd be damn lucky just to get it back up and away from the creek when he finished.
He gave an experimental tug at the chain, and then climbed back up on the tractor. Carefully, without grinding the gears any more than he surely had to, he shifted into reverse, played the clutch out slowly and brought up the slack in the chain.
"Well God?" He asked, looking skyward, "You keepin' a watch down here? I could sure use a hand about now, Lord. Amen," Jeremiah finished.
He let the clutch out a little further, playing the gas pedal as he did, and let the tractor go to work. The over-sized tires spun, caught, and the tractor began to slowly back up the steep bank, pulling the tree out of the muddy water as it did. Jeremiah released the breath he had been holding, and just as he did the chain snapped in two. Jeremiah barely had time to register what had happened when the old tractor flipped, crushing him beneath it.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherA. L. Norton
Release dateJul 29, 2016
ISBN9781370602834
Earth's Survivors America The Dead: The Fold 1

Related to Earth's Survivors America The Dead

Titles in the series (13)

View More

Related ebooks

Dystopian For You

View More

Related articles

Related categories

Reviews for Earth's Survivors America The Dead

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings

0 ratings0 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

    Book preview

    Earth's Survivors America The Dead - Lindsey Rivers

    ebook_preview_excerpt.html}[vǒT龫(E/?fU%TB8_ww=ɍ#2 t["*##aWwwv{w_\|uwx*^]}?xmq_/ ]_|CSvX܅'v]VD;ɗWeWS]?-c7oӯ{}}Qlbö)\Se}ׇuzabc!7$o8^('A#kEl߫ݱhb_,miY cf8ȳUxx۹V?{N(NoE!]'KL[ Hw @]d!r%CpE苃f0g|M6kĵ[CX]` ?]H*y9_J/5},F)wCm>wMXgⲑs"BjݺNn;rYR[qrXOI7z.dmCƯC U5YV䨪;[rQtA\?qm!^竣p+QL+<9 <: evw>ꏸaUnrBU\?b>TVM_tœڻF+9l9ַ֮iDfbU 8(pA gmC?? nd8 /GԶu ޖs,wZ_t~m-ϽP'nE> "b 8 ݃,_?on?<\}xJ*/<|}ww·o_x귫w7x7.w_og^x{wmv{@P;'YDuݺm CV4s1=S>uhC !+żfaJEl@ZEIxcs?'8lwЮZGƈ;mgW^'=4B A?N> W [XV$=_ݣ<&\tE;儘x.JfJwWtOzDz)q_<6Qxd2ӄ1-wt8`ss˾>a '&XA;Bŭ5[,njZY~|Mr&BR VHw]:Mh;`ĦH835dt)! v4r*lB֞De$ | pS,>ۉq<ť-Yr߾߿W6o/G]_X?$ 늇C''|h\PԊ:;Q~[J +\u}S/4XxMvX.z },Õ ubO|6f1@T)&nBԹno@;ф]A @p,~HgN7FZvn^PTu-Tnh*9|,JQ`Ւ\[Þc jzxrv"tv"Pk=l!>}߂zD<(K#_Qf+36b ،z,q?M+"QzB+.Fo@srĪTzSB=zí-h!grk.1L]ҘHf_"h,$abjx0;WN_4&!`?n/5 ͜M@X0W`T%X!HŦa56t`N҆0!" ͫQ,e*.4rvmxLt*0S8gB(EJ(5b덺>X 4lQ-XI|1FlqA ׀%MlJt~;2D/<%Cn "OU'E.ʼnh%*+HPGL7'@"T@f-x3 kӜMMj'5Obuq⾢h [SB~C{0fI_ No~byap&@x;dƼ)A]?l6X |يf*ӻ>Vp%^kղaQwnzQ^-K`['fCM;_ x૎>HdA1\j?WT{P"S5%oO QΉv!:Qy-PsՆjI@E&EMW1u&rq`^ <ѦF,3bسJk,Չ|zyۘO-Rh<)IB|d<Jr/] V-=7nb qT\qeb5 U0hq0=cDR5=P3(\ bi8KQClϺV&'9SP"A{:MnsLCM/kc$>i#V8M4~W$OB6T 1rR$u ogNGրjlͦ*oPd]6!%J[ 3}*XBĕQsL;;'\Б0 q!V+/ E1Ndz RN);5(DxT,vGw*an(#yT\fWqj$jnHe‘\'Ix 0D<djIDH~f udOT6ax杢N%߄bd5O] =M3!א]>%YIرCZq|tK)7ܭo_5Uȥ:,)aNnnw0,(GJĝ]ǂ\_j^țD Z82b^XX[vЊ~}UPŷx Mț2&69Ma-ʏXRَMLR:t=s]7 7+Mccߘf9HƟ0%$||D--SS+ƍ+_qV3ɾү"$B}QmST7BY5VE?yc&`93=I T9u\ك$9qlq N<͋@d71N` UɄyQ\qMo EIJ5C 'lrklL1!Zdҁ",#6$xz>%vǓ-N8 —W`|#jD}*xmbq1t'0-,=~i 暩 <쐋 fMrzk) c7)ӕ X0wX,X'G<|/ b=hJF"&فYxBܞK?9 ~ 4GbWR:1eӱ9BTP/&rp۵H(A-j4VE/[@}@ӓy=hJ%e fWERBY<(AZ)œ&LZ'EwuH~̜z`PI>yOhd3(9F'8`eu+Vw dr$EAZk‚oi &LhdU!'5T/ΌMm=B ,zptdS`"w'!QXgnɅhAx*[x^DrM4 JgVHe9$W̩ͤ"&V_~AA' ,"Jg;peD5}v!ș1Kv0ݘ p^+A:].G*p,TW~V:V@Q0!f~F[km慈SQ4R4k\ĊKA^ "m5]b7..-wWXt[4R zO@vO.ΓΩLVب9ojv7LTMHx\rVCR94-H#"&i?*#?qn_A"c" ̤K g@ğSQR3 mٕj3yȐ|KD&*0]BCˑwn;ړ_0E~FfHd0:hqAQͩ壴faͳb2;BpX w2rYĂ巌+4Mׄ1 J:l~(D~%GKDv$Q|+e&!$eU 0\>a,g2KR? /93)+'CnNd\3DyK9D}O)mn6qK -Tp\ CχL+قpa%~^DR}l-/ۊ0WϢǷ~~[̞M?;ma ВXuuTEu~=?iRv/D$>J9r7cSDʏHhp1rt3d9w _DD-{4u*tH~Jv_HHa77bӼM8VY+^h1jGmh%;Bј]÷d䗅FQn<3Ar̄C:K㰃:v Na$۶LzN$XE ga%cZ϶OQ1xkPgM"[?k&R[(7Ϩ @J={L43_GptLbh UIa'ں:e0"bt8!﫲.g_mrqU`ԇ^IB1:;O-Zt#$| DrZ: qVQ籅ҳz=袇O5,F׏S{!7\E}d w3ơS-+z.$C0 C zl-}JتGߔis+Dv&QZ8mZOyDwl@[{SKfl,m\kRS}| 4CGoV$+Z:ڷDVkp#ݬ2i)Hܘ ;uAZU=aĵ|AutT!gӂٞN-0u1Xdƅ34$aXgYca]T:R;{I77 =,.48 )nzy6b=l,-6.G4.d&\Np(NeyOѺ8+Z}6L?.]xl;H$GS`*A~wºMrC W!3T3҂:5,|AgsDoYބ@߳rY]q;' rB)ssT }HvCKCC* ǖm |-5BnbYe(k 4|9"Os77X4m-B>Ν oH1W3""2BpjSйrPҟ*lZ].39P{T#;Ϲ4Sm9:Ν:*ĝ -EGl!vlS[v3D 2@y4BET%^AC [k:>.0o2U8$:9RLr>y<9zX}x GtFY2ۈ;[6T]E[Yvҫ$BL`k$)P@O4Jr,IE(?gOR)itw)_ъPgCDO(i:abR̪h"'4*zքJgԚ,ؑ '(jI,7`TWO5~m:,mPz粻S0^Moࡏ13h 1jcQg>-;힅zy#WE}hX,D\X h3cI ;Iu$DOْ20jt$=jd[O1g.~#NyY@,1Ep+2XPU^MYJa*Vg |& 4-=2Ս@ىwNQ6uv!nf?YtF:Xc-@gS6%ש~kt< Uܓ ۣcId6%"3D R1qgbĹ9)bF+3QF6Bxk@N tr9 f,wVTY]ig6> x`ZG:@01ӜΙQYYuR ­fO`ǖaXT)PTtYmFe*3 lQوiì@VŽ _яQi+h:a]jQCәu8IJ.4 0J*Sof,Qq8$SeJWir)VSO* 9ayvʂOCe jmS8Qy/U:<V iM%L NR4r$ mcT겾l( U牴c ^kcPNmEbaN|w0B&k%rX#8Ă6Y= L羿4Y|PMu}׆c5-:~:wiV{Y' ڜ,cؔ6^}OjY>q@NXrX,}}+Aa:2g,$LQ e>a\${R +y,9MZgM+S6͹MO+Fy5/tu_DSu1pٷ;v-B:[qkՓyj$0WU[2f]%Vf :_8m`sA ; 8 >.IGM=F1x Ezc*siiNX?v~i~DV"6<[g Aw{2`6H~kg59G{oy"ԭ >:_,iPRgμ1e#k׀.1SNx.YXs.`$cM_%`PdfAEj"'sRxʪ:-%پ~OtS0e[OF&@OׅogifYDϪZwK q[4~ cI]['YA"%hrݤy5&-oxA`#OHb@t!v q1I 2Ĵ>/I5C 4S;bC7\M^/* c Oi"zNoJ!3YEa0D`cֹqAǙVgn ݛ{q&5Ρx`.A?] N&9Ϝ+z)Kqq؎ͅp=}bC y iRNh"zI 2|_R\qu>BF9c} c9(F-& mLBK_~-YfȽ2[˺,f(lmϪ( ,ůnl}>"{$;}'>Lʕ/ףтtIݑYTlZSX9OmʝB+HQH\=8tXN yp<6v5{^T)s'fhYNN-/L^t][Yvb>rA[Zߟ)ڱX5ٙHXE@cDL\{*30?j j֏gbMdƇ[X{)M6T񖉰KDns.֡PHiR)ʇ HmSy2Rt|U`p?y:3rkbXFmk)Ih;k/onL/3VijմP)@ҋΗ9C:z!itμݻw~6h*W,`,vX畏)S'DX|#|ĖE5mp;\J3[ &ޚ]hRxq6ԄxG 4[>'2_{̣ =;'s7tkn5A7Yv_^׬_Zg,h%=4#vҵ%Ð4e9Uhi xiJX "vt \ډbU%A)Mw,0ԩ# .dDoXڮR*#V.2mBC.hѾ6M,Vk?Mpw=|vBٹvi_-g  L^M5̙LpuLe*fhoD62sSG7Ka^fctB tGjħ>䬧?_HW,n%Jpn ,7m%2UpH3 kƩp|̷\hiE+J>/F `bu 3XړLYGO-PXnLdV 9ڰfsz+[Uʉ)yCȽ?TXatۿ\`uNڤsٺF8 W@zr=vUBi`i|qc*5sr{k5=ߙv_ƖEYK(aCG_y^;?1[}z a< QT $j>` h2尚1ڶ;Qq Uemw%M(\Fd۱T VV5T/Ezf^Yeڐ@^a,W.ҩ;lguMxl\+w0Pm\ol^s$?0=iS9" xg3JfŸW@KJDzŁ5DGU]GƮ0MiTkF7\EesS.MXƠ"W:`+RsqdGm5:k}"&겸=Gz lk6fLlɵԖQ2J6kab5_MRU"5?S_ :1M/<^iމk!}ۏ?6!1/w eE1hpĮSD#%0ť(cM8~Ac$(ufЫG`Ch`':-6 ?B8Y4lk,9*j1b҂J>@7^QYfsty0B @7r~Vb>m5S1h8Dڛ]BMsO~8RRFz]sodP49en Diĩ#j-dqHN4Fؚ_zZiq0!KJjqLֺ贏kdn GaBq̠#$Ȅ#
    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1