They had been living in the shelter for over a week now. Three days after the Boom they had went out to investigate the damage and found nothing and no one. Just trees pulled out at the roots and bare of leaves along with trails of smoke in the distance over what was left of the city.
They had driven Jessica's mom's SUV to get to the bomb-shelter on the first night. They returned to where they had parked the car but it was nowhere to be seen. However other pieces of cars seemed to be strewn throughout the field. Like they'd drifted in on some invisible tide.
What was most unsettling is that there were no signs of life.
No people. No animals. Dead or alive. Just nothing.
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"Who has my charger?"
Adam was moving cushions and other items as he looked.
"Here. I borrowed it," Safana handed it over to him.
"What's the point? There's no signal and no wifi," Alissa asked.
Scott walked into the room dressed in a white short-sleeve shirt with an undershirt underneath and a pair of dark grey trousers that looked kind of like suit pants except slimmer.
"It's good to keep our phones charged," he offered. "There could be someone else out there still."
The others stopped what they were doing and stared at Scott. His dark skin seemed even darker against the crisp white of his shirt.
"What... are you wearing?"
Scott smoothed his shirt, "I found them in a storage room. There's like a ton of clothes in there all wrapped in plastic."
The group couldn't stop staring at him. Holding his phone in his hand and dressed in these 1950's clothes made him look like a time-traveller.
He finally spoke, "What? I got tired of wearing the same clothes for a week... Y'all should think about finding some new clothes as well. Everyone else in the world might be dead but I still have to smell you."
Evelyn turned to Bobby, "You are a bit rank."
Bobby looked at her, then stood up, "Fine. Let's get some new clothes."
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Short StoryA group of high school friends break into an abandoned 1950's government bomb shelter for an end of year party when, without notice, nuclear war actually breaks out. Left with only the supplies, clothes and technology stored in the shelter from...
