Season two, Episode nine “Reunion”
12/25/21 • 25 min
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After the Apocalypse
A Pandemic Survival Story
Season two, Episode nine “Reunion”
Bella watched as the big dog pushed his head into the old man’s lap. The dog was wiggling its butt like a puppy and the old man was pretending to be mad.
“No”, the old man said, looking away from the supplicant dog, who was vigorously nuzzling at him. “You didn’t listen to me. You could have gotten yourself killed.”
The dog gave a big push and the old man slipped out of the chair sprawling onto the linoleum floor. Bill pounced on the old man as he fell to the ground and licked at his face. The old man put his hands up for protection and laughed despite himself.
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Outro S2 E9
Hello my survivor friends.
Welcome back to the apocalypse.
In this episode I wanted to give all y’all a bit of a breather from all the tension and action. That last episode where KJ has to escape across the river was harrowing. Death, destruction, fear, tension, cats and dogs living together – real end-of-the-world stuff!
My editors and I had a multi-day discussion as to whether she would bring her boots with her. Tim said to tie the boots around her neck. I just couldn’t see how she could swim with the boots around her neck.
I rewrote it 3 times. Tried a compromise. Long distance swimmers actually have these waterproof floaty bags they put stuff in and tie to their ankles. But it was getting to complex and awkward, so I sent them a text that read “I don’t care about the @#$%@ boots!”
It’s running joke between us now.
I figure in the Hollywood version of the story this scene will give them an excuse to have the heroine take her clothes off! Of course, by the time Hollywood is done with it there will be sea monsters, laser beams and aliens.
So – I wanted to take it easy on you this week. And I gave you that tense reunion scene as a flashback so you would already know the outcome and it wouldn’t require so much stress.
Then we got them all together back at the school.
A bit of a holiday gathering if you will.
The security of the group.
The gathering. Not the quickening. The gathering.
It’s odd how strangers can come together for a common purpose in times of crisis.
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After the Apocalypse
A Pandemic Survival Story
Season two, Episode nine “Reunion”
Bella watched as the big dog pushed his head into the old man’s lap. The dog was wiggling its butt like a puppy and the old man was pretending to be mad.
“No”, the old man said, looking away from the supplicant dog, who was vigorously nuzzling at him. “You didn’t listen to me. You could have gotten yourself killed.”
The dog gave a big push and the old man slipped out of the chair sprawling onto the linoleum floor. Bill pounced on the old man as he fell to the ground and licked at his face. The old man put his hands up for protection and laughed despite himself.
...
Outro S2 E9
Hello my survivor friends.
Welcome back to the apocalypse.
In this episode I wanted to give all y’all a bit of a breather from all the tension and action. That last episode where KJ has to escape across the river was harrowing. Death, destruction, fear, tension, cats and dogs living together – real end-of-the-world stuff!
My editors and I had a multi-day discussion as to whether she would bring her boots with her. Tim said to tie the boots around her neck. I just couldn’t see how she could swim with the boots around her neck.
I rewrote it 3 times. Tried a compromise. Long distance swimmers actually have these waterproof floaty bags they put stuff in and tie to their ankles. But it was getting to complex and awkward, so I sent them a text that read “I don’t care about the @#$%@ boots!”
It’s running joke between us now.
I figure in the Hollywood version of the story this scene will give them an excuse to have the heroine take her clothes off! Of course, by the time Hollywood is done with it there will be sea monsters, laser beams and aliens.
So – I wanted to take it easy on you this week. And I gave you that tense reunion scene as a flashback so you would already know the outcome and it wouldn’t require so much stress.
Then we got them all together back at the school.
A bit of a holiday gathering if you will.
The security of the group.
The gathering. Not the quickening. The gathering.
It’s odd how strangers can come together for a common purpose in times of crisis.
...
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Season two, Episode Eight “The King”
After the Apocalypse
A Pandemic Survival Story
Season two, Episode Eight “The King”
The King’s given name was Andre Bobette.
No one called him that.
No one had ever called him that.
When he was a kid his hard-drinking, white-trash father had called him ‘Bubba’.
At least he had, as long as that miscreant loser was still living with them in the double-wide trailer.
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S2 E8 The King – Outro
Hello my survivor friends. Welcome back. How’s the apocalypse going for you these days?
This was a long episode. 3500+ words. I thought about breaking it up into two episodes, but it seemed to hang together well enough, and it advances the story line in the right direction.
I just listened to Roberts read of the King’s backstory – OH MY GOD! It was terrifying!
Great work.
Why does Janet care so much about what these bad guys are doing? Because she sees the bigger picture. She sees that this is one of those moments in the arc of time when direct action by a few individuals can determine or alter the broader outcome.
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Season two, Episode Ten “Logistics”
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Season two, Episode Ten “Logistics”
Mags looked at the old man with a tiredness that belied the weight of the world on her shoulders.
She hadn’t been getting enough sleep.
There was so much to do.
There was always too much to do.
She had to stay on top of the details.
They couldn’t afford to lose any more people to this chaotic world.
How had she been thrust into the leadership role of this small and broken tribe? She didn’t know if she was up to the task, but she would keep working to make something out of this and out of them.
If humans were to survive and move forward, it would take groups of people working collaboratively. She thought that, just maybe, this group could be the start of something good.
She wasn’t going to let that die on her watch.
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Outro S2 E10
Hello my survivor friends.
Had some interesting irony this week. I started reading ‘The Stand’ by Steven King. I’m 2 weeks and 700+ pages in. It’s a big book and takes a long time to build. I’ll have more thoughts on it when I’m finished.
If I ever finish.
The ironic part is that I picked up a cold over Christmas from my 87-year-old Mom. Which is ironic in itself because we’ve been trying so hard to protect her from the actual pandemic and she turns around and gives us all a bad cold.
I was hoping to get a lot done in my week off – and that statement right there tells you a lot about me and my neuroses – but I was sick and spent a lot of time reading and resting, which was good timing to tackle the oversized tome that is The Stand.
Here’s the ironic part; I’m lying in bed reading about all these characters who think they only have a cold actually having a superflu that wipes out humanity. At the same time I’m writing a story about a pandemic apocalypse where everyone dies from a virus and listening to the news about a raging pandemic.
Talk about meta! I’m a character with a sore throat and a runny nose during a global pandemic, reading about a global pandemic apocalypse and writing about a global pandemic apocalypse.
That was my week.
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