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    A Three-Day Walk
    A Three-Day Walk
    A Three-Day Walk
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    A Three-Day Walk

    By Dwayne Phillips

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    Hurricane Mabel has ravished a large region. People are trapped in either their suburban homes or on the roads with looters. Jack Clark has a plan to walk out of the storm-damaged region. He only has to carry enough supplies for three days at a time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDwayne Phillips
    Release dateJun 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301894499
    A Three-Day Walk
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    Dwayne Phillips

    A systems and computer engineer since 1980. A short story fiction writer.

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      A Three-Day Walk - Dwayne Phillips

      A Three-Day Walk

      Dwayne Phillips

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      A Three-Day Walk

      A small tear formed in the corner of Jack Clark’s eye.

      He stepped out the back door of his suburban home into the dark. He locked the door behind him and hid the key under the nearby downspout.

      Dawn was a couple hours away. He was getting a good start on the day. He wiggled his shoulders to adjust the weight of what he was carrying.

      Well, maybe I’ll see you again, maybe not, said Jack while looking at his house, his home for the previous 28 years.

      Jack thought of his three children, now adults, now all living a few hundred miles to the south. Jack thought of his widow taken from him by cancer two years earlier. He placed his hand on the now-locked doorknob. He let go, turned his back to the door, and walked to the street.

      It was dark. There was no electricity. The streetlights and the entry lights on the houses were useless. Jack, however, knew his way. In two minutes he was at the end of the cul-de-sac; in three minutes he was at the entrance to his housing development. Five more minutes brought Jack to the chaos of the population fleeing a battered metropolitan area.

      Hurricane Mabel had hit three days earlier. It wasn’t supposed to be a big one; they didn’t have big ones hit this part of the Atlantic coast. Rising water wasn’t a problem 100 miles from the coast. The wind, however, was. Somehow, the wind howled at 125 miles per hour while the hurricane sat on them for 48 hours.

      The region was devastated. You weren’t supposed to lose power to storms when all the power lines were buried. The problem was that while the power lines in the nice, neat, sanitized suburbs were buried, the feeder lines were not buried and

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