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Chapter 9

We crouch down behind a large black cow. He flips his tail and rolls his head back for a moment eyeing us in the darkness. I’m sure this is strange for them, too. But the cows seem more content to watch man’s end of days than the two who’ve just taken refuge in their midst.

“What is that smell?” the girl says in a tined voice and when I glance at her, she’s pinching her nose.

I noticed the aroma too but when you’re in a life-and-death situation, those things seem to skid past the brain cells while you’re kneeling in what you hope is mud but know there’s cow shit oozing between your toes. Then when my eyes start watering from the ammonia, I have to blink hard as I take out my phone and flick the tiny power button. I wipe my hand on my expensive slacks and as the screen lights up, I see a myriad of missed calls and messages but the most predominant is, “What’s going on???”

I’m hesitating because I’m not sure what she knows. Hell, even I don’t know what’s going on. So, I decide right there to delay calling my frantic wife back before I have some information. And I try to check the news.

“Keep an eye out,” I tell the girl when I catch her looking at my screen and I start swooshing all the insane notices to the left but hesitate when I see the top grayed-out Emergency Alert. “Unknown weather event! Stay indoors!”