Crate Of Teal

By Peter Fisher

Teal continues the crate series showing pre-apocalyptic schemes and preps and includes the prologue for ZOI:Strike Two.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter Fisher
• Release date: Oct 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005841744

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Crate of Teal

by Peter Fisher

Copyright Peter Fisher 2022

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Contents

Wake Me When It's Over

Negotiating the Endgame

Inequivalent Exchange

Buyout Or Bust

Electronic Pitch Calling: Another Apocalyptic Sign

Bonus! ZOI:Strike2 Prologue

About the Author

Wake Me When It’s Over

Karl settles into his seat, asks for some water, squeezes an eighth of an ounce of Rick Simpson oil into his mouth then swallows, Wake me when it's over.

Airre the Quantum and Karl Meltzer depart Bolivar corporate offices in Houston in the smaller corporate jet flying to the Champaign, Illinois environs for on-site inspection of perspective purchases.

Karl sleeps the sleep of the dead until she screams in his ear, Wake up you slog, we're landing! as their private plane touches down in Paxton, Illinois at the old Chanute Air Force Base taxiing to an old though well-maintained hangar. Karl collects his bags while Airre fetches the rental from inside pulling up alongside the jet in an old beat-up pickup.

Karl looks dubiously at the dull rust with primer accents so Airre reassures, Looks like hell but it's mechanically sound. There are no limos available, I asked, so climb aboard!

Karl throws his bags in the bed and climbs into the cab noting the worn seats and manual transmission, You sure; I mean can you access the maintenance log?

Airre looks at him sideways, grinning evilly, I have detailed files.

Great, a Terminator reference; hope you got it out of your system.

If the shoe fits, eh? Well, let's try to enjoy the ride.

Driving the back roads in companionable silence, Karl takes in vast tracts of corn and soybeans nearing harvest. Every half mile or so they cruise past structures- typically farm relative but also quite a sprinkling of single-family homes on roadside parcels. Every roadside has ditch, many have one on each side. Out in the country to observe farm practices and surface water movement they meander toward the river following the path from roadside tile drains to 'woodland' creeks.

Airre breaks the quiet, "Used to be agricultural runoff got a pass environmentally though originators of deleterious non-point pollution but the thinking's modifying because satellite imagery now tags the contents of each of these tile drains thus transitioning each field into a point-source. The clean water act already requires secondary treatment of traditional point-sources such as the Hooterville treatment plant outflow. There is no in-situ treatment of the farmland runoff. If you're