Pulse: Retaliation (Anisakis Nova Book 2) Read Online Free
Author: Eloise J. Knapp
she invested in the stock market as well as in the bunker. Since they never had children, Mandy liked to think of the bunker as the child she never had. After all, she cared for it the same. She watched it develop the same. It was the product of her and Matthias.
In the evening she enjoyed taking inventory. She frequented many prepper forums and websites, and even had a successful blog about prepping that got thousands of hits a day. Mandy had a nice amount of income from advertisements and endorsements on the blog. She liked to think she made a difference in a few people's lives and helped them become more self-reliant. Plus, the traffic helped generate income for her to improve the bunker. It was a perfect cycle.
So when Anisakis Nova began spreading, Mandy wasn't one of the people scrambling to buy food and secure their families with no clear plan on how to do it. During the early signs, she packed up any extra items she wanted to take into the bunker, photos and books mostly, and descended. She was ready to wait it out for as long as her supplies lasted. Matthias would be proud of what she accomplished.
The only regret she had was that this hadn't happened about eight months later when she'd have a small underground garden setup. She was still in the planning and supply acquisition phase with Anisakis hit. It meant she'd be living off canned and dried foods, but really she had no complaints.
In fact, she practiced staying in the bunker for months at a time to prepare. There was no sense in having a bunker if you had no experience operating inside of it. She told her friends she was going on vacations. It was like a vacation for her. For a while she dropped off the face of the planet and could spend time with herself. During that time she handwrote blogs despite having a computer and caught up on reading. She only ate the foods she would have in a real life disaster scenario to simulate it as closely as possible.
The day she decided to go into her bunker when Anisakis Nova appeared to have the upper hand, she couldn't help but feel a little excited. Another extended vacation. Another chance to show she could do it.
She'd never been so wrong about anything in her life.
5 – Dom
"I'm thinking chili macaroni and maybe fruit cocktail today," Dom said. "Fruit cocktail if we're lucky."
Chelsea laughed and scrunched up her nose. "Chili mac is my least favorite."
"You're weird. Chili mac is everyone's favorite."
They stood in line at the food distribution center, which was a giant warehouse hours away from their new apartment. The wait took up half the day, but since neither of them worked anymore, it didn't matter. Every day they were so grateful to be alive that nothing could bring them down.
After they escaped that lunatic Dr. Baker, Dom and Chelsea spent a few weeks camping in the mountains. As they expected, it was much harder than they thought it would be. The first days were spent in constant worry that Chelsea was infected. The rest were spent trying to make a fire, forage food, and find or make clean water.
It all frustrated Dom. It seemed like it should be easy to rub sticks together to make fire. Survivalists did it in a split second. When he was at his end, Chelsea reminded him of Castaway and how long it took Tom Hanks to do it. How much he suffered before he finally got it. Most of the time her patience grounded him. It had the potential to infuriate him, too. He didn't understand why she was so at ease.
He did make fire. They did survive. It got easier, but not by much.
They discussed the possibility of cities still being overrun or saved. There was no concrete reason to believe either. Eventually they decided to see what the cities were like. Once down from the mountain they found an older couple, Ron and Katherine Sillvers, who were living in a nice farmhouse and took them in. They saved them from having to go back to their meager campsite.
When the electricity and TV came back on, they
In the evening she enjoyed taking inventory. She frequented many prepper forums and websites, and even had a successful blog about prepping that got thousands of hits a day. Mandy had a nice amount of income from advertisements and endorsements on the blog. She liked to think she made a difference in a few people's lives and helped them become more self-reliant. Plus, the traffic helped generate income for her to improve the bunker. It was a perfect cycle.
So when Anisakis Nova began spreading, Mandy wasn't one of the people scrambling to buy food and secure their families with no clear plan on how to do it. During the early signs, she packed up any extra items she wanted to take into the bunker, photos and books mostly, and descended. She was ready to wait it out for as long as her supplies lasted. Matthias would be proud of what she accomplished.
The only regret she had was that this hadn't happened about eight months later when she'd have a small underground garden setup. She was still in the planning and supply acquisition phase with Anisakis hit. It meant she'd be living off canned and dried foods, but really she had no complaints.
In fact, she practiced staying in the bunker for months at a time to prepare. There was no sense in having a bunker if you had no experience operating inside of it. She told her friends she was going on vacations. It was like a vacation for her. For a while she dropped off the face of the planet and could spend time with herself. During that time she handwrote blogs despite having a computer and caught up on reading. She only ate the foods she would have in a real life disaster scenario to simulate it as closely as possible.
The day she decided to go into her bunker when Anisakis Nova appeared to have the upper hand, she couldn't help but feel a little excited. Another extended vacation. Another chance to show she could do it.
She'd never been so wrong about anything in her life.
5 – Dom
"I'm thinking chili macaroni and maybe fruit cocktail today," Dom said. "Fruit cocktail if we're lucky."
Chelsea laughed and scrunched up her nose. "Chili mac is my least favorite."
"You're weird. Chili mac is everyone's favorite."
They stood in line at the food distribution center, which was a giant warehouse hours away from their new apartment. The wait took up half the day, but since neither of them worked anymore, it didn't matter. Every day they were so grateful to be alive that nothing could bring them down.
After they escaped that lunatic Dr. Baker, Dom and Chelsea spent a few weeks camping in the mountains. As they expected, it was much harder than they thought it would be. The first days were spent in constant worry that Chelsea was infected. The rest were spent trying to make a fire, forage food, and find or make clean water.
It all frustrated Dom. It seemed like it should be easy to rub sticks together to make fire. Survivalists did it in a split second. When he was at his end, Chelsea reminded him of Castaway and how long it took Tom Hanks to do it. How much he suffered before he finally got it. Most of the time her patience grounded him. It had the potential to infuriate him, too. He didn't understand why she was so at ease.
He did make fire. They did survive. It got easier, but not by much.
They discussed the possibility of cities still being overrun or saved. There was no concrete reason to believe either. Eventually they decided to see what the cities were like. Once down from the mountain they found an older couple, Ron and Katherine Sillvers, who were living in a nice farmhouse and took them in. They saved them from having to go back to their meager campsite.
When the electricity and TV came back on, they
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