Final Rights

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Through the view-finder Sharpshooter Clint Johnsson scanned the bridge and beyond the ground troops running to their firing posts. To the west side of the river, ravaged old buildings stood near collapse. A weed-choked motorway hung silent over a darkened neighborhood as he watched another act of survival unfold.

Rounding the street corner running underneath the expressway, pulled by five sweaty and hard-breathing pack horses, a dual “wagon” with the hand-painted numbers 616 on the driver side door came into view. The wagon was actually a badly rusted, extended cab pick-up truck with a modified flat bed. In tow, an additional four-wheeled enclosed trailer bounced and rattled behind it. As actual fuel was scarce and strictly rationed to the extent of armed guards stationed at its single distribution center inside the barricaded city proper, these wagons were literally horse-powered. In this case, the typical six-horse team had been reduced to five. Clint did not see the missing charger though, very quickly, he suspected it had fallen to the snarling and snapping massive meat-grinding monstrosities pursuing the speeding wagon train.

FINAL RIGHTS is a Military Scifi Thriller set in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2075, when the large cities are the last bastions of humanity, and hungry creatures outside, in the ruins, await.