Dust Land #3: The Way We Were

By Jeremy Dickson

Allison has escaped an apocalyptic nightmare in the streets of what was once New York City only to find herself trapped in a secret research facility below ground. Trapped and pursued by genetically engineered plants. They had been designed to save a starving world. Now, they want to feast on her flesh.

There is one hope for her and the man she has fallen in love with. He must take them down two levels into a compound where death lurks at every corner, and get them into stasis pods while he initiates a failsafe protocol that will destroy everything left in the complex. If they don't hurry, that might include them, too.

Will there be any hope left for mankind? All Allison knows is that they have to save themselves first, if they hope to do anything to save the world.

Check out the other parts of this explosive series --- Dust Land #1: We Shall Return and Dust Land #2: Rising From The Ashes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Davlan Press
• Release date: Jan 7, 2017

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Chapter One

The plants were coming.

Allison had never been so afraid in her life. Not when the apocalypse first happened, not when she had been running from cannibalistic humans, not when she saw her parents murdered. Not ever.

She and Doctor Chris Rycroft were on the third floor of the UNIFED complex, two floors down below the top level where the greenhouse had spawned the nightmares that now stalked them.  This place had been built underground, sealed away in secret beneath New York City’s streets, supposedly safe from anything that might happen to the world above.

No one had counted on trouble starting down here instead.

There were several rooms on this floor dedicated to research. Huge rooms with empty metal tables and cabinets full of chemicals and substances and different implements that Allison couldn’t identify. She and Chris had been through most of them, finally settling on this one near the end of the level. It was near the stairs, he explained to her, in case they needed to evacuate, and it was a sealed lab for testing various gasses so there were no external vents for anything to sneak through. Only an air evacuation system that could reduce the room to a vacuum in a matter of seconds.

They huddled with each other, in a corner of the room, him holding her in his strong arms. His black hair was a mess now, just as she was sure her long auburn hair must be, tangled from their frantic rush down two flights of stairs, shooting at living, crawling plants.

Shh, Chris said for the hundredth time, putting his finger to her lips in the darkness. There were scuttling noises overhead. The plants had made it down one level. How long would it be before they came down here?

Should we go down another floor? Allison asked, very quietly, her voice shaking.

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Not unless we have to, he whispered back, his British accent more noticeable now that his adrenaline was rushing. Once we’re down there we don’t have anywhere else to go.

She understood what he was saying, but she still wanted to put as much distance between herself and those things as she could.

It had only been a few hours since she and Chris and Maxwell had come back from a disastrous trip up to the city streets to obtain clothing and other