by J. L. Harden
My vision finally comes into focus. I sit up slowly this time. Carefully.
I take a look around.
On the walls are racks of guns. So many. Countless.
I’ve never seen so many guns.
All kinds.
Rifles.
Automatic.
Semi-automatic.
Sniper rifles.
Hand guns.
Shotguns.
Machine guns.
Guns I have never seen before…
Boxes and boxes and crates of ammunition.
Grenades.
Rocket launchers.
Land mines.
Thermo suits.
This entire room is a war chest, a weapons cache worth a hundred, no, a thousand fortunes. Enough to last a thousand lifetimes. Enough to buy your way on to one of the Arks. To live amongst the stars.
This is a war chest. Below a morgue.
“Edgar has convinced me to join the revolution,” Max says. “To stand up to Wonderland and the Collector and the so called… Lord. I am not much of a fighter, not much of a soldier, but I have spent a lifetime accumulating and building this arsenal for a day just like today.”
These words are treasonous. Enough to get us killed. But who cares? We’ve all got a death sentence on our heads. We’ve all got a target on our backs. We are beyond the point of no return.
I look to the ceiling and I can’t shake the feeling that we are literally surrounded by dead bodies and buried by dead bodies. I don’t know whether to take this as a good sign or not.
But Max is smiling.
And Angel is smiling.
Ed is all business. And he says, “Zoe, we are going to war. Prepare yourself.”
TO BE CONTINUED…
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Wasteland Wonderland
Part 3
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Copyright © 2016 by James Harden
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