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London (Surviving The Evacuation #1) London by Frank Tayell
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“Have you ever tried to vent your frustration by writing down swear words? Try it, it’s just not the same.”
Frank Tayell, London
“One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but that will do for me.”
Frank Tayell, London
“No films, TV, or music,”
Frank Tayell, London
“All I can see is desolation, all I can smell is decay, all I can hear is the creaking, cracking sigh of undead voices on the wind, yet all I feel is hope.   18:00,”
Frank Tayell, London
“I struggled out of bed, and turned on my laptop. There were twenty messages from Sholto. None were particularly friendly, though few of his missives ever were. The first read, ‘I see you’re in hospital. When you get out, download these files. Keep them safe. It could be important.’ I’m not sure why I followed his instructions, but I did. Day after day, I copied the files to my laptop, deleting all the documents, films, and music to make room. When the broadband stopped working, I used the government phone. By the time that stopped working, just after the evacuation began, I’d filled the laptop and the external hard drive on which I’d been storing our plans for the election campaign. I did look at some of the files before the power went out. I listened to the air-traffic control audio-feed from when Air Force Two went down. There were calls”
Frank Tayell, London
“All I can see is desolation. All I can smell is decay. All I can hear is the creaking, cracking sigh of undead voices on the wind, yet all I feel is hope.”
Frank Tayell, London
“electric oven.”
Frank Tayell, London
“Of the other twenty-seven, they had gone on to infect people from all walks of life, but it was the airline pilots and politicians with easy access to air travel that spread the infection out of the state and beyond the borders of the U.S.”
Frank Tayell, London
“guess they’d taken some kind of poison, but who knows? From the level of decomposition, they died soon after the outbreak. I don’t know if this was the original congregation or some group that had banded together after the evacuation. I didn’t see any point trying to find out. I closed the doors and left them there. I don’t resent them, nor do I pity their final hours. It was their choice and it’s not for me to judge, but I think that priest in Colombia had the right of it, that what we should fear most in this terrible world is fear itself.”
Frank Tayell, London