Chapter 1
As I dodged through the dark alleys I spotted a black shape rushing around a sharp corner, obviously trying to escape me. I leaped over the garbage can and raced him down the sidewalk. He turned around, pulling a small switchblade from his pocket. The man stabbed upward into my stomach, hitting the adamant plate over my chest, bending the knife like a piece of wire. I wrestled him to the ground, grabbing and flinging the knife into the alley. I smashed his body into the wall of the building next to us, pinning his hands behind his back.
He struggled against me but I was six foot four, 225 pounds all muscle, so his struggles were in vain. Since the apocalypse started in 2060, more of these people showed up trying to take our towns provisions. My particular clan lived in an abandoned town called Alloway. We had built a fence around the whole town, keeping out the undead. Then, when these guys showed up, we put up razor wire to keep them from climbing over the fence and stealing our weapons and cigpows, a mix of cows and pigs that are great for food and were bred in 2024.Even so, a few stragglers like this one got in every once in a while. So, I tied him up and started the two-mile walk back into town, with this idiot being dragged behind.
