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    Virginia Day Zero
    Virginia Day Zero
    Virginia Day Zero
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    Virginia Day Zero

    By John Rickards

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    Murph and Rory Caulfield are two regular kids in the small town of Coombs in rural Virginia. When their uncle goes to fetch the local sheriff after finding "something bad" on his farm, the boys go to check it out for themselves. What they find is more than just bad, though - it could kill them and everyone they know.

    The race is on now. First to escape, then to find out what's happened to their family and their town. If they can do that, they can think about finding a safe place to hole up away from the horrors that pursue them.

    But day zero is here, and maybe there are no safe places. Not any more.

    Virginia Day Zero is a sci-fi short story about the end of the world.

    PRAISE FOR JOHN RICKARDS:

    "A huge talent" - Steve Mosby (Black Flowers, The 50/50 Killer)

    "[Rickards] writes breathlessly classy pulp" - Daily Telegraph

    "One of the most talented and original voices out there" - Jason Pinter (The Fury, The Darkness)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Rickards
    Release dateJun 11, 2016
    ISBN9781533740045
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      Copyright 2013 John Rickards. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License 3.0 (cc by-nc). You are free to distribute or share it however you want, so long as the author retains credit and you do so for non-commercial purposes. (In simple non-legalese, don’t try to claim someone other than me wrote it (and why would anyone do that, really?) and don’t try to make money from it. Otherwise, share away! Thanks!)

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      Cover Image: ‘Lonely Nights Wear On’ by Garrett Gill, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

      1. Blood

      If this is as big a deal as you think it is, Uncle Don’s not gonna want us seeing it, Rory Caulfield said for like the tenth time. What if it’s something really bad?

      His brother Murphy, pedalling hard beside him, tried not to sound too frustrated; it was one thing riding over to the western pasture to see Hell-knew-what, quite another to do it alone. Course it’s something really bad, he said. "The way Uncle Don came back and went for the phone like he did, can’t be anything else. But you hear what he said to the Sheriff’s Department? Just that he had something in his fields they really had to see. He didn’t say, ‘Hey, Al. I was just checking on the herd this morning and I found a dead body.’ So it’s bad but it’s not bad like that."

      So what, then?

      They were starting up the long climb to the top of the ridge. Beyond it, the western chunk of Don Caulfield’s grazing land and whatever

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