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    Welcome to Sunrise
    Welcome to Sunrise
    Welcome to Sunrise
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    Welcome to Sunrise

    By Lee Penney

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    What would you do if your world collapsed? If the power went off, the supermarket shelves were bare and your water supply dried up? For Katie and her family the answer was simple: survive.

    Fifty years have passed since the plague struck, and in the community of Sunrise they hold a yearly Remembrance Talk to ensure their history is never forgotten. As its oldest citizen, Katie is the one who delivers this presentation, guiding her audience through the events that shaped them.

    There have been trials and tribulations on the lake island they now call home. Many people have given their labor, love and lives over the years, but the community has come through it all, a new dawn after the dark times.

    This is a novelette of ~15,500 words (51 pages)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLee Penney
    Release dateSep 29, 2013
    ISBN9781310619540
    Welcome to Sunrise
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    Lee Penney

    Lee can generally be found staring at a screen from behind a keyboard, either writing, coding or attempting to read all of the interesting parts of the internet before someone adds a new bit. He has a fascination with stories in all forms, especially film, and enjoys spending as much time as possible in a world other than this one.

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      Welcome to Sunrise - Lee Penney

      WELCOME TO SUNRISE

      Copyright © 2013 by Lee Penney

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the author.

      Lee Penney has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

      This work is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      Cover image courtesy of stock.xchng user dekok

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      As Katie smoothed down the front of her best dress she noticed how worn it had become. Loose fibers sprouted from the hem and it was threadbare at the seams. Not that her failing eyesight allowed her to see it in much detail.

      Looking up, she considered her reflection in a cracked full-length mirror. She tried to remind herself that she was long past worrying about her appearance, but it didn’t stop her hands from reaching up and smoothing her hair.

      She hobbled over to a nearby dresser and picked up a hairbrush, then returned to the mirror, moving with a shuffle and a hop as she swung her bad hip. The slow painful movement infuriated her because of the effort needed to get anywhere, as well as how it made other people treat her.

      The dresser was only a few yards away, one of the few pieces of furniture in her spartan room. Vases of flowers and a bright quilt brought much-needed color to contrast the drab brown of bare wood. It was a room that could have come from a pioneer home in the Old West.

      Staring at her reflection, Katie slowly pulled the brush through her hair. It still fell past her shoulders, but like her dress it had become thin, and the color had been replaced by a palette of gray. Memories of how it had once been, the thick silky curtains, briefly filled her eyes.

      Ignoring the twinges in her joints, she focused on keeping the strokes steady and subduing the shaking of her hands. When she was done, she returned the brush to the dresser and stood in front of the mirror once more, examining herself. She barely recognized the old lady looking back, all but the eyes seemed foreign. The light brown irises were nothing special, not the sort poets wrote about, but they were still clear and her gaze still strong.

      Standing as straight as she could, she noticed how small she’d become and there was an obvious hunch in her back. She scowled briefly, wrinkles forming like waves on her forehead. She reminded herself that age caught up with everyone, but it didn’t help her mood.

      Looking down at her dress, she smoothed it again. It was plain by most standards, simple white cotton covered in a repeating pattern of flowers, the green stalks topped by small bursts of color. The flowers, once so vibrant, were ghostly memories of their original colors, the dyes faded by the passing years, and the white canvas now a pale gray.

      She could still remember the dresses she'd worn as a young woman, the vibrant colors and exotic fabrics. She'd never really thought about them at the time, but now she marveled at the amount and types of materials that had gone into them. Those were the days of endless consumption, when clothes were cheap and plentiful. She'd never needed to know how to make them and only barely knew what they were made of.

      As she reminisced, her hand unconsciously reached for the locket at her neck, fingers toying with it. As her mind returned to the present she looked at the reflection of the gold oval in her hand.

      The locket had been a birthday gift from her husband during one particularly bad year. Steve always seemed to know just what to get her. It contained pictures of them both before the plague had consumed their world, back when they had worries that seemed so trivial now. Steve had been gone some years.

      Katie looked to the framed photo on the dresser. The image showed him in his prime, smiling broadly, an arm around each of their children. The memories raised a smile but it was wiped away by a knock on the bedroom door.

      It opened to reveal her son, Dave.

      As he grew older, now an old man himself, he began to resemble his father. Katie sometimes mistook him for her husband. It always left a sting when she realized it wasn’t him,

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