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Book details
  • Genre:FICTION
  • SubGenre:Science Fiction / General
  • Language:English
  • Series title:Jolt Survival Trilogy
  • Series Number:2
  • Pages:194
  • eBook ISBN:9781938729591

Two Close

a story of survival

by Roberta M Roy

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Two Close: a story of survival (Jolt Survival Trilogy, Book 2), the sequel to Jolt: a rural noir, follows the paths of the Matters family, Mary, Lou, and their sons, Jason and Marty. Separated by circumstances following terrorism and a nuclear meltdown, Mary, at home, recuperates from radiation sickness. Lou, brain injured in a dirty bomb explosion, recovers from amnesia and right-side brain damage. Their sons have fled and survive alone in the woods. Two Close is a tale of courage and the human will to survive.

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Two Close: a story of survival - Book 2

Scene: At home in Solers' cellar Time: Immediately following a nuclear meltdown

Lenore left to get a change of clothes for each of the boys. 

“Sneakers, too, into the bag. When you’ve showered and dressed, find something else for your feet. Then everybody downstairs. If you have any special toy you want to bring with you, take it when you go. You won’t be up for three days.

Done. No ifs, buts, ands, or ors.”

Even Stephen put aside his want of food.

After the boys . . . under Carlos’s supervision in the main bathroom . . . and Lenore and then Carlos had showered . . . in the one off their bedroom, and they all had changed their clothes—including their shoes, the boys and Lenore headed for the basement while Carlos collected his family’s castoff clothes and any food sitting around. Walking under his golf umbrella, Carlos then transported everything to the large plastic trash bins. When Carlos came back inside, as he passed the threshold of the door, he tossed the flip-flops he had been wearing off the side of the steps and stood the golf umbrella just outside the door. Then he joined the rest of his family downstairs for what was to be the longest three days of their lives.

Lenore brought down with her bread and cold cuts from the refrigerator and a carton of milk. They opened and sat on the sleeping bags there and shared the picnic lunch makings and talked.

“So, Dad, how long do we have to stay down here?” It was Ricky. He was twelve and generally quiet, but he had a way of getting to the facts fast.

“Seventy-two hours.”

“Will we have to stay after dark, too?” asked five-year-old Stephen.

“We’ll be sleeping here for three nights. So, you might as well settle in for the long haul,” answered Carlos.

“But why, Dad?”

 

About the author

Roberta M Roy’s Jolt Survival Trilogy is the winner of four writing awards. Home Again 2020 (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 3) took the Gold Medal for Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/Humanitarian) and Silver Medal for Multicultural Fiction in the Jenkins 2021 International eLit awards and the Bronze Medal in the 2021 Jenkins Living Now Awards as a novel.  Jolt: a rural noir (Book 1) took the 2011 Jenkins Living Now Inspirational Fiction Award. Roy’s book Slivers: Poems by Roberta M Roy, medaled in the 2020 Jenkins International eLit Awards in Poetry. Roy is a Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who resides in the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York State where she is the creative lead and owner operator of alvapressinc.com.

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