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    Survive: Day One
    Survive: Day One
    Survive: Day One
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    Survive: Day One

    By A.R. Wise

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    A coronal mass ejection is hurtling towards Earth, promising destruction unlike anything the modern world has ever been forced to endure. Scientists predict the electrical grid will suffer irreparable harm. Gasoline will stop being delivered, and soon after food and water shortages will threaten life as we know it. And that's just the beginning of the problems Porter and his brother, Red, face at the start of this apocalypse.

    The Law brothers need to make their way over a thousand miles across the country to get to their loved ones, but cataclysmic forces seem aligned against them. Every hour of the day is plagued with new hurdles to overcome on the start of their journey. Will they even make it through the first day?

    Survive - Day One is the first of seven parts of a new series by the acclaimed author of the Deadlocked and 314 series, A.R. Wise. The Survive series will be released each month through April 2017.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA.R. Wise
    Release dateNov 2, 2016
    ISBN9781370945092
    Survive: Day One
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    A.R. Wise

    I am a podcaster, movie and music lover, owner of the Talkingship website, and long time secret writer. I decided to sit down and force myself to finally put together a story and get it into people's hands. That happened with the release of my first novella, Deadlocked, on November 9th, 2011. For updates on my writing, news about upcoming projects, and to see a ludicrous amount of other fantastic things, head over to http://talkingship.com/wp/

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      Survive - A.R. Wise

      SURVIVE

      Day One

      By: A.R. Wise

      Cover by A.R. Wise

      Photo sourced from istockphoto.com

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      Day One – 5:15pm

      A framed picture of a happy family sat atop a duffle bag filled with guns. The father, a stout, bearded man in his mid-thirties, was packing.

      There was a cell phone on the dresser attempting to connect a call. It was set on speaker so he could hear if the call went through. It stayed silent. Every few minutes a droning voice would announce, ‘We’re sorry, but your call can’t be connected at this time. Please try again.’ Each time the call failed, the father would redial before heading off to collect more gear.

      The only television in the house was in the living room. The volume was up loud enough that it could be heard from the bedroom. A male newscaster gave the definition of a CME, ‘Coronal Mass Ejection. It’s like a solar flare, but stronger. Plasma and magnetic fields shoot out from the sun at an incredible speed. Is that right?’

      The father rolled up a long-sleeve shirt as tight as he could, and shoved it into the duffle bag. The guns and ammo rattled. He positioned the shirt as padding between a couple pistols.

      ‘Sort of. The first thing to remember is that these happen frequently, and they almost always miss us,’ said a female solar astronomer who’d been brought on the news to explain what was happening.

      ‘Will this one miss us?’ asked the newscaster.

      ‘More than likely, yes. At this point, all we know is that a large solar disturbance occurred two days ago. It was most likely both a solar flare and a coronal mass ejection. And a big one at that. One of the biggest we’ve ever seen.’ She couldn’t hide her glee. Scientists have a tendency to get excited about things that other people find terrifying. ‘Solar flares and CMEs happen all the time. Sometimes several per day, depending on the solar cycle.’

      The newscaster interrupted, ‘So we have nothing to worry about?’

      Porter laughed, mocking the question.

      ‘I didn’t say that,’ said the solar astronomer. ‘We might have a lot to worry about. It all depends on the direction that the… You know what’s a good way to explain it? Think of a gun. All right? Imagine someone is pointing a gun at you from across a football field in the middle of the night. Imagine they fire. You see the gun flash. Pow! That’s sort of like the solar flare. But it’s not the solar flare you have to worry about, it’s the bullet coming at you. The bullet’s like the coronal mass ejection. Does that make sense? Except instead of a bullet, we’re talking about solar plasma and a magnetic field. Right now, we saw the muzzle flash, and the Chinese are saying that the bullet’s headed our way.’

      ‘The Chinese?’ asked the reporter.

      ‘Yes. They’re way more advanced when it comes to solar science than we are, sadly. Our government hasn’t prepared for this sort of thing, even though they’ve been warned over and over.’

      ‘Are the Chinese scientists right? Is it headed our way?’

      ‘Oh, it’s definitely headed our way. We’ve already seen the effects of the solar flare on satellites. The question is if the magnetic field will hit us directly.’

      ‘And will it?’ asked the reporter, his frustration beginning to show.

      ‘We won’t know for certain until about a half hour before it gets here. That’s when it’ll pass by our ACE satellite. At that point, we’ll have a better idea of where it’s headed.’

      The father carried a duffle bag filled with clothes to his front door, and then headed back to the bedroom. He paused by the television mounted above the fireplace to watch.

      ‘What happens if it hits us directly?’ asked the reporter. ‘Should we be worried about radiation?’

      ‘Not here,’ said the solar astronomer as she pointed down. Then she pointed up and added, ‘But up in the atmosphere we might. That’s why they’re grounding all planes, just in case we do get hit. That being said, if the CME hits us directly, radiation will be the last of our problems. If we suffer a direct hit…’ She shook her head.

      ‘What?’

      ‘If we have a direct hit, there’s a chance that our electrical grid will go down. We’ll lose most of the satellites, which means our communication capabilities will be severely crippled. And if the CME is strong enough, it could actually melt copper inside of transformers, shutting them down. That’s what we really need to worry about, because we’re not prepared for that.’

      ‘We’re not?’

      ‘No. Not even close,’ she said. ‘We could be facing a blackout on a scale we’ve never seen before.’

      ‘And how long before we can get things working again?’

      Tell him the truth, said the father to the television as if daring the solar astronomer.

      ‘We really don’t know,’ she said.

      The father grimaced and muttered, Liar. He clicked off the television and headed for the bedroom.

      He paused to look at the framed picture of his family that he

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