“Future Revealed” blurb:
Ruby, Pagan, and Koby are lonely, missing the community they left and the friendship of the people from the valley. As they collect supplies for winter, they decide to get extra and visit the valley, taking them some food and maybe animals to help them.
But first they have to hide from a group of motorcyclists looking to raid settlements for food and women. The trio’s next stop is an abandoned farm, where they find some useful things, including some animals and a truck to transport them back to their warehouse home.
They stay in the warehouse during winter, but once the weather becomes warm again they finish planning their trip to the village, adding a high-sided utility trailer to their vehicles to transport fuel for the people.
Danger is everywhere in this lawless world with food so scarce. Will they even survive the journey?
STORY EXCERPT
Ruby rested on her heels, her hands on her hips, stretching her
back, then sank onto her butt and extended her legs out in front of her,
lifting her arms to the ceiling and rolling her shoulders. Hell she was stiff.
Deliberately she clenched and released the muscles in her legs, arms, and
shoulders, rolling her head from side to side, and curling and stretching her
back. Caring for the vegetables was back-breaking work, but if she wanted to
eat, she didn’t have any other choice than to do the hard yards.
If we were living in a community,
there’d be more people to do the work.
Yeah, smart-ass, but they’d eat
the food, too, so we’d have more work to do.
But at least I could talk to them
while I was working!
Sure she had Koby and Pagan to talk to, and she loved them both
with all her heart, but the truth was, she was lonely. She craved other people
the way she craved chocolate. Koby and Pagan were wonderful and caring, but
they were only two, and she needed a community around her. Her loneliness was
made worse because for a few brief days she’d had the group from the village to
talk to, and she’d loved talking girl stuff with Adena and Zuri. Also, she knew
the men had enjoyed sharing with the village men. The evenings around the fire
just chatting about anything and everything had been the highlight of the past
month. Hell, the past year! Apart from the awesome orgasms Pagan and Koby gave
her night after night. They were spectacular, too. If only she could have the
two men and a community, life would be perfect.
But their own community had hated it when the three of them
bonded, and the only solution was to leave. The spiteful comments and hateful
looks were unending and soul destroying. Especially from people she’d always
thought of as her friends, women she’d grown up with. Plus they’d found this
huge building and had all their crops under the one roof instead of having to
move from apartment to apartment or plant outdoors and wonder if the winds would
come again and poison everything. Although Zuri’s people grew all their crops
outside in the ground and had no trouble with illness. Zuri had said no one had
died from the bad winds in a decade or longer. So could they live with Zuri?
After all, she was part of a threesome arrangement with Tau and Udo.
Ruby stood up and shrugged. She’d talk to Koby and Pagan again.
They’d discussed the idea in general terms. Likely it was time now to consider
it seriously. She really was lonely, and the work was hard. Although the crops
here grew very well, and the ones at Zuri’s village weren’t so good, which was
why her people were scavenging for food and how they’d come to meet. Dammit,
there was always a negative to consider!
Berengaria Brown
No comments:
Post a Comment