What I expect to be the second to last chapter of the free online novel ED Day : Dead Sydney is now up. Here's a chunk of it :
Johnny didn’t pace, he just stood there, in that doorway, filling it up, talking in a calm voice, as though he was set for whatever fate was about to dish up to him.
“There’s beers,” he said. “But they’re a bit warm.”
“I think I like my beer warm, now,” I said, and it was true.
Johnny grabbed a couple of bottles of VB from a half-empty case on the floor. He tossed me one.
"Cheers to you," I said. "Yeah, good luck on your journey, brother."
“Good luck with…what you have to do.”
We sat in silence for a few minutes and drank our warm beers. The sun was returning, a huge heat lamp slowly being turned up. The blast of sun on my skin made me want to go back to sleep.
"Why do you think we made it?" Johnny asked me. "Why us? Millions probably died here. Why did we get to live?'
It's the question all survivors ask themselves, but once they cut God out of the answer nobody could ever come up with a good reason.
You can read ED Day from Chapter One here.
