Season two, Episode three “The Hungry River”

10/02/21 • 24 min

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A Pandemic Survival Story

Season two, Episode three “The Hungry River”

Janet glared through the sleet, up the hill, searching for the Humvees that she expected to appear over the crest at any moment.

“Persistent deadbeats...” She swore under her breath as the chain saw chattered in her hands.

She knew if she could slow them down, even for a minute, it might give the bus enough time to escape.

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Outro S2 E3

https://shows.acast.com/after-the-apocalypse

Hello and welcome back survivors.

Here we are, episode 3 of season two and it feels like we’re hitting our stride.

This was a fun episode to construct. I love the visual of the river devouring the bridge. Just a great picture in my mind’s eye.

The other thing that happened here, not to give you too much of the sausage-making, was a roller coaster ride. It’s a series of tension builds and releases, where we are just letting you off the hook and we slap you again with a new shock wave.

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After the Apocalypse

A Pandemic Survival Story

Season two, Episode three “The Hungry River”

Janet glared through the sleet, up the hill, searching for the Humvees that she expected to appear over the crest at any moment.

“Persistent deadbeats...” She swore under her breath as the chain saw chattered in her hands.

She knew if she could slow them down, even for a minute, it might give the bus enough time to escape.

...

Outro S2 E3

https://shows.acast.com/after-the-apocalypse

Hello and welcome back survivors.

Here we are, episode 3 of season two and it feels like we’re hitting our stride.

This was a fun episode to construct. I love the visual of the river devouring the bridge. Just a great picture in my mind’s eye.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Season two, Episode two “Pursuit”

After the Apocalypse

A Pandemic Survival Story

Season two, Episode two “Pursuit”

KJ clutched the knife in one cold hand, lowering the heel of her other hand to the ground for support.

She was in a full crouch now. Just a few yards away she could see the hooded man on the bench, under the portico, and he looked to be dozing.

“If he’s a guard, he isn’t a very good one,” She thought.

Something about him didn’t fit.

A moment ago, as she was sneaking along the wall, she had glanced into the window of the resort and saw some of the thugs.

The King’s soldiers were no better at guard duty. They lay sprawled and asleep on the lobby furniture, surrounded by trash and bottles, no doubt sleeping off another hard debauch.

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Outro Episode 1 Season 2

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Season two, Episode four “Empty”

After the Apocalypse

A Pandemic Survival Story

Season two, Episode four “Empty”

Mags watched the old man slump into an overstuffed, coffee-stained chair in the teachers’ lounge. It smelled like cigarettes and moth balls. Decades of stale smoke wrapped in tweed jackets with elbow patches.

Undoubtedly, it had been the treasured refuge of some crusty old academic with only a few years left to retirement. This old chair his redoubt from the squalling of adolescent rage.

That person was gone. Their jaded, dusty dreams swept away with the apocalypse.

Now this chair was empty.

Now it made a good place to temporarily store this old man.

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S2 E4 Outro

Hello survivors! Welcome back!

Picking up steam in Season 2 now. How do you like our new characters?

I like the Mags character. I hadn’t pre-planned to write her this way but she just naturally turned into a strong person. The kind of person you need in the Apocalypse.

I did have several people threaten to unfriend me over at the Facebook group after episode 3. Have patience. And, if you need to yell at me you can join us at the after the apocalypse Facebook group.

And, if you want to hire Robert for something, I don’t know, maybe to record the message on your voicemail, you can find him at Command Voices.

Wouldn’t that be great? “Welcome to the Apocalypse, We’re tied up surviving at the moment. Please leave a message. We’ll get back to you, if we survive...”

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Our tribe is growing nicely. We are at 28XXX downloads and running between 100-400 per day.

Thank you to those of you who have subscribed in your apps. And thank you for sharing with you friends, enemies and total strangers.

It looks like it’s working.

Keep it up!

Just drop the link shows.acast.com/after-the-apocalypse into Facebook, twitter, whatever. We are word of mouth so keep making words with you mouths in the direction of other people.

Also thanks to new Patreon member Corby who threw me a couple bucks. I appreciate the help.

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Feel free to reach out to me with any suggestions or comments.

I am having a blast writing and producing this – and I hope you are too.

If we have brightened your day even a little bit with our story telling it makes us happy.

We appreciate all your help and attention – and whatever you do – keep surviving.

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