by Howard, Bob
The Chief’s little mutiny had been crazy to try on his own. That’s why it was good that Kathy had rebelled along with him and snuck out after him. They may have been crazy, but they had saved the lives of thirty children and eighty adults. They might be stuck inside that shelter for years, but they would survive. They would live, and they would have more children.
Molly would be happy to keep them company on the radio and keep them up to date on the outside world. Now, there were children at Fort Sumter and Lake Norman for her to talk with.
That made our one contribution look smaller, but the baby sleeping near us was a symbol of the future that we were going to determine for ourselves.
I sighed happily along with Jean, pulled her a little closer to me, and drifted off to sleep.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bob Howard (1951-) was born in New Jersey to an Army Sergeant from Ohio and a mother from Romania. He was moved from one Army base to the next, and before he began high school in Huntsville, Alabama he had lived most of his life overseas in Germany and Okinawa with brief stays in Maryland and North Carolina. He credits his imagination to his exposure to different cultures and environments at an early age. He began reading science fiction and fell in love with post apocalyptic novels. He still has an original copy of the first one he read in 1966, The Furies by Keith Edwards. He joined the Navy after high school and continued to move from one base to another, including a submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He eventually stayed in one place when he got stationed in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated with a BS in Psychology from the College of Charleston and married his wife of 32 years. His son still lives in Charleston, but his daughter has married and made a home in Ohio where the Howard family has its earliest known roots. Through the years he has had one burning passion that he has wanted to fulfill, and through The Infected Dead series he is getting to live that passion. Creating a book is something so many people want to do but never have the opportunity, and after writing these books he believes the sky is the limit. He plans to write for the rest of his life because it is enjoyable beyond his wildest dreams. As for the zombie genre, he saw Night of the Living Dead when it originally hit the theaters, and he believes until recently it didn't receive the attention it deserves.
