Apocalypse in the Homeland: The Adventures of John Harris Read Free Page B

distribution centers and they just need to give us our fair share. She takes care of us and does all of the chores around the house. She belongs to me and my wife, not them.”
    Joe replied, “You are a worthless piece of shit,” and hit him in the stomach then dropped him to the ground and then melted into the night.
     
    John patiently waited on the leader and several of his men to get distracted enough so he could sneak into the building and get into the room next to his office.
    “Joel, we have plenty of food, water and coal to last for several years. What is our next step? Those gangs are getting closer to us every week. When the weather breaks, they’ll be right on our doorstep.”
    “Carl, that is why I have the veterans training all of our people how to fight. We need a small army to protect what we have and I’m convinced that we need to start wiping out these gangs before they kill us and take the food and women.”
    “I don’t like looking for trouble.”
    All of the others in the room were on Joel’s side and they shifted to the regular business of running the town. John slowly edged his way out of the building and headed back to the hanger.
     
    Again, they compared notes and ended their confusion concerning this town.
    “Guys, I think we need to meet with these people and join forces. Hell, they may even have a shortwave radio. We might be back in Mobile in a week. Let’s sleep on this tonight and form a plan in the morning."
     
     
     
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    Chapter 3

 
What Would John Do?
 
Mobile, Alabama
 
2022
     
     
    The smell of bacon frying was an aphrodisiac. He slipped up behind Joan and put his arms around her. She grabbed his left wrist, turned around and lightly elbowed him in the stomach.
    “Down boy. Didn’t you get enough romance last night?”
    “Darling, I just want to hug you and let you know how much I love you. I knew that training women to fight would backfire on us.”
    “Keep making comments like that and you will have to romance yourself buddy.”
    She gave him a kiss and went back to cooking.
    Scott went back to reading the Mobile newspaper while Joan prepared breakfast. The newspaper was the only one for the region around Mobile and it was a combination of local gossip and hard news reporting. One article caught Scott’s eye. The headline made him choke for a minute. It read, “John Harris is Alive!” The story went on to give the author’s opinion based on the evidence reported by the military. It indicated that John was building another country in the area around Colorado and that the EMP blasts had destroyed all of the radios so John could not call for help.
    “I think this author is closer to the truth than anyone could possibly believe. Dad took control of that plane and landed it somewhere in the northcentral US and is out of radio contact. He is building an army and we will hear about him killing all of the bad guys in that area.”
    “I hope you are right. John, Beth and the others are the best the ISA has and if anyone could survive, it’s them. Have you found out any more intel on the Chosen People? We must take them out for trying to kidnap John and causing his disappearance.”
    “We are surveilling numerous locations across the ISA and USA. We have found 23 locations and estimate they have over a hundred thousand followers. This will not be an easy take down.”
    “What would John do? I’ll bet he would bomb the bastards.”
    “There are several governors pushing back on whole scale bombing because they say many innocent people will be killed. While they have a hundred thousand supporters, they also have the same number of local people working in their factories and farms. We actually buy a significant amount of our food from them. They have the only large distribution supply chain in the country. They supply most of the food for the USA. We are working on a plan to take out their command and take control, then