The Flip
Description
The Pentacle Virus drove Man to the
brink of extinction. Humanity is determined
to complete the job.
The
Pentacle Virus had the ability to infect almost every living warm-blooded
animal. It spread across the planet in the early summer of 2016. I am not sure how long the disease spread and
wreaked havoc but communication lines went down by mid-summer, the world wide
web would no longer connect around the same time. The news networks and radio stations were off
the air shortly thereafter with their final broadcasts being confirmation of
the death of POTUS and the complete breakdown of the federal government. All
social services, including the armed forces were shut down.
The
world was thrown into the dark ages and the poor souls who contracted the new
Pentacle strain had little to no hope of survival. The vast majority who caught
it, died within a twelve to thirty-six-hour period; regardless of health, age,
gender, or race. Those that survived the
thirty-six-hour period, in general, were stricken with continuous pneumonia
type symptoms that eventually caused the individual's death. Most within two weeks.
In the
early days of Pentacle awareness, conspiracy theorist blamed the government,
accusing them of building biological weapons. If they did, they forgot to
develop the antidote first.
The
Muslims blamed the infidels, the Vatican declared it was “Wrath of God”, and
atheist supremist blamed all society for global warming.
Personally,
I think the Good Lord and Mother Nature had had enough of the parasitic homo
sapien ruining the planet.
It's now 2020
A.D. or 0004 A.P. (After Pentacle), depending on how you relate to things since
the world flipped. The existence that
Dinky knew prior to the pandemic, died four years ago. The microscopic warrior devastated ninety percent
of the global human and animal population. The remaining individuals have no
laws, no government, no social services or communication. Survival of the
Fittest is the current standard.
Travelling on
foot to a town 35 miles away, Dinky must expand his scavenging area to find the
needed medication for his wife Sarah.
Will he survive
the perils of the trip or will he be just another victim of, The Flip?
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About the Author
Doyle Weldon Knight, is a novelist, short story author, occasional poet, and subsea engineering consultant that lives in central Louisiana. Thirty-seven-years with a beautiful southern belle, daddy to three admirable citizens, and a forty-year career in the oilfield industry. A life-long reader, with a preference for the macabre and supernatural, in 2016, he discovered writing. Becoming semi-retired in 2018, he pursued bringing his writing to the reading world. His short story, The Matriarch Sin, can be found in, Halloween Party 2019, by Devil's Party Press. His self-published debut novel, The Flip, a dystopian, post-pandemic story of survival, was released August 2020 in eBook and Paperback, and can be found in most online book retailers. His first full length novel, The Flip, was released August 1, 2020.
