600 Miles: A Post-Apocalyptic Adventure

by G. P. Grewal

  It was all she wanted to hear and she smiled, closing her eyes as she nuzzled her nose in my chest and finally dozed in my arms. Above us, the stars looked so beautiful and the moon too, and the ocean waves kept crashing from far away, sounding softly in my ears as I drifted off.

  *****

  It had been a long, heavy sleep. When I opened my eyes I saw the sky again, clear and blue, Roy’s gun still in my hand. Beneath me the grass was wet with the dew of early morning, my body suffering from a dozen aches and pains. My stomach hurt too and I was thirsty, and as I sat up the blood rushed to my head.

  In the distance I could make out the California Ocean. Down there was the lonely highway that would take me north. What was waiting there, I didn't know, though I had to take it, always wandering, always searching, always alone. I picked up my rifle and headed down the hill, knowing there weren't no use in looking no more. There was no finding her, that woman I had loved either dead or gone. It was the way of life, not necessarily for others, but for me it had been for a long time. Why it was like that, I didn't know. A curse maybe, cast upon me by someone I couldn't remember or didn't even know, though I guess that was just me being superstitious. In the end though it didn't matter, being a man who was well accustomed to walking the miles alone.

  And so north I headed, hungry but well armed, lonely but used to it, tired but moving on. What new things, what adventure awaited there, I wondered, my weary feet leading me down that long, unending road.

  About the Author

  G.P. Grewal is a writer of literature, memoir and speculative fiction. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

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