AFTERWRATH: Part Zero: Aforewrath

By JB Dewaltz

Burk Wallace is a bounty hunter with nothing to lose but his life. But when he's left with no choice to move on, he follows a bounty that will lead him right into an oncoming storm - the likes of which the world has never seen.

Afterwrath - Part Zero: Aforewrath is the intro story/prequel to the series, AFTERWRATH, and gives a little more backstory on Burk, before leading right into the Afterwrath series.

The AFTERWRATH series is a dystopian, action series that not only follows Burk and his journey to find his wife, but to survive the harsh landscape of a world going mad.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JB Dewaltz
• Release date: Jul 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005703462

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AFTERWRATH

Part Zero: Aforewrath

By J. B. Dewaltz, Copyright 2020

2nd Edition

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All places and names of characters are fictious. Any resemblance are purely coincidental.

Thanks to God for the gift of life. Thanks to my wife for putting up with me. Thanks to my kids for eating me out of house and home. Thanks to Stephen King for his advice on writing.

1

Lauren’s departure almost killed him.

Burk sat in the dark living room, staring at a blank television screen. A soft black window of nothing. He held a half empty bottle of Jack Daniels in his left hand, and Colt, his father’s revolver, lying not three feet away on the Ikea coffee table he and Lauren had bought back when things were great.

Okay, maybe not great, but better.

How long had it been since she’d left? Three, four weeks? The days had passed by in a distorted, drunken blur. A beard covered his lower jaw and he couldn’t remember the last time he’d showered. Empty alcohol bottles lined the counter. Crushed beer cans spilled out of the trash can onto the floor. Dirty dishes stacked high in the sink.

A knock came at the door. He looked at it, stole a sip of Jack and waited for the other person to leave.

Another knock. Burk? You home? It’s me. A familiar voice. But his brain was too dulled to put a face to it.

A key clicked into the lock and the cylinder turned. Burk lunged forward, spilling some of his drink, and snatched up the gun and leveled it sloppily as