“What do these words mean?” Lucy asked.
Anna bit her lip, pensive. She looked at Isaiah. “Jones spoke of an experiment that started all this. Well I’m guessing this is where it originated. They were trying to live forever.”
“They’re all dead,” Zeke said. “That’s no life.”
Anna nodded. “I think they failed to realise we’re already immortal. We live on through our children.”
“So now what do we do?” Lucy asked.
“There must be other communities out here. Friendly ones. We need to find them,” Anna said. “And we need to put the departed to rest and bring life back into this dead world. This is our home.”
Isaiah reached into his satchel and rummaged around before pulling out a book.
Mother Charles nodded at him. “Therein lies the truth. But not the way the brethren interpreted it. We have to have faith.”
Everyone sat down, huddled in a small circle.
Isaiah opened the book and started to read. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
About the author
Shaun Jeffrey was brought up in a house in a cemetery, so it was only natural for his prose to stray towards the dark side when he started writing. He has had five novels published, ‘Killers’, ‘The Kult’, ‘Deadfall’, ‘Fangtooth’ and ‘Evilution’, and two collections of short stories, ‘The Mutilation Machination’ and ‘Voyeurs of Death’. Among his other writing credits are short stories published in
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Copyright
Published by Deshca Press
Copyright © 2012 by Shaun Jeffrey
Edited by Stacey Turner
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