Litenaunt Jonathon Lakes an counterterrorism intelligence agent investigative an claim of bioterriost group entering into the United States. A Border Agent name Issac informed Litenaunt Lakes,s division about an suspicious encounter with a leader that give him red flags.
A group of survivors flee to a local plaza aftermath of zombie apocalypse as temporary safe haven from hordes of undead . The place is divided into twelve storefronts
Zookeeper Moses ,in the fall of 2124, created a Elevator Time Tunnel for transporting white tigers and exotic living creature endanger of becoming extinct. He requires visitors to enter the contamination chamber before allowing them access.Zookeeper Moses also developed an subway system acting as a wormhole through the Milky Way and other galaxies. Futuristic Toledo Zoo ,s environment includes newly discovered species thought extinct.
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The Toledo Zoo hundred years in the future evolve into an utopian sanctuary for orphaned, abused, and abandoned living creatures. The zookeeper updated the Elevator Tunnel to travel through time&space.
CHAPTER 1
ZENIA
Zenià’s smartphone send her message about a dangerous heatwave warning through her I Weather App revealing the abnormally high temperatures in her rural community of Westville. After viewing her app , she went outside to confirm for herself. The heat overwhelmed her triggering a hot flash and prompting her to check on her herb garden. Zenia touch the soil of her plants that bone -dry .She grabbed the basil, lemon balm, cilantro, oregano, rosemary, mint, and red raspberry taking them inside her home. Fortunately, her herbs survived.She first put them put front of her fan cooling them off also provide plant food and water for her herbs.. Zenia’s smartphone rings.
“Hello,said Zenia. She recognized the voice of the caller on the other end as Miss Victoria a co-worker of hers.
“Miss Victoria,” “What going on?” Is everything okay at work?”
“Miss Zenia,”Nothing out of ordinary except for the cancellation of company,s summer picnic because of the heatwave.” “Our supervisor Mrs.Maria Johnstone rescheduled to July 4th fireworks.
“That a bummer ,I was looking forward to the picnic.” said Zenia.
“Miss Zenia, “Did you check your herbs?” “They will not survive the scorching heat.”
“Yes,I brought them inside before called.” I just give my herbs plant food & water.
“That good, you going to them plus some vegetables &fruit.said Miss Victoria.Zenia heard a notification on her phone while speaking with Miss . Victoria.
“See you at work Thursday,” Miss Victoria,I have another person attempting to contacted me.”Make sure you keep hydrated in this scorching heat .
“Okay,mother dearest,Miss.Victoria respond in a sarcastic zone of voice.
“You funny,”Bye,” said Zenia ending the call &. answering the next one on hold.
“Hello, there,” “said Zenia.
“Gee,Zenia,” Was you talking to Miss.Victoria?”” I feel like I have been on hold forever,! said Supervisor Maria Johnstone. Zenia noticed her supervisor’s higher -pitched voice filled with anxiety that alarmed her.
“Sorry about that.”. “Are you okay, you sound stress must be serious for you to call me?””What going on at work?”said Zenia.
“I need to you come in tomorrow at 11:00 am Mrs Zane & six other employees called off work because feel ill of the heat .” “We are short-staffed with only Miss.Alexis &Miss . Victoria working.” said.Mara Johnstone.
Zenia works at Herbal&Greenhouse as herb grower & botanical expert. Maria Johnstone acts as head supersior of all the employees and a mentor to Miss . Zenia.Miss.Victoria assist Miss Zenia in care of the produce including taking inventory and taking orders from customer. Miss.Alexis ‘s duties involving finances &running the cash register.
Zenia arrives at Herbal& Greenhouse Garden fifteen minutes early greeting Miss.Alexis the cashier.
“Good morning,Alexis, ” Any early bird?” said Zenia.
“Slower than usual, no customers since 9:45 am when Jonathan,s older brother Joshua visited our store earlier taking order for him .” said Alexis.
“Strange , Alexis ,_Your man Jonathan normally comes in the morning unless he out of town,or a business trip with his carpentry company,or sick.”Alexis smiled at Miss.Zenia acknowledge of her love interest. Jonathan &Alexis begun seeing each other a year ago.
“It is a possibility, because he travels during the spring &summer month.” said Alexis .”Jonathan, informed me , he has new contract for a housing project in Texas.”
Suddenly, Miss Alexis received a text from Jonathan ,s older brother Joshua who a chef at Herbal& Greenhouse Gardens. It read it he had to take his brother Jonathan yesterday evening because he passed out from the heat. He just awake up asking for you.
“Is he okay , Alexis texted back.
Joshua texted Alexis “He feels weak and his temperature is still too high. The doctors decided to keep him under observation for a couple of days before releasing him. Jonathan interacted with Mrs.Zane&other six employees .
CHAPTER 2
ALEXIS
The heatwave continued to wreck havoc beyond five days without ceasing. All of Alexis ‘s greenhouse co-workers take off work except for Victoria,Zenia &Joshua .Maria Johnstone give Miss.Alexis a promotion & she took over Mrs.Zane’s duties.She felt uncomfortable about her new job and struggle to adjust.
The American government becomes bankrupt because the cost of living increased of 85 percent. For an example :gas price is 15.00 dollars due to sarcity of petroleum. People begin growing their own garden because food became out of reach to working to the ultra-rich . Only billionaires&millionaires can afford that a stretch even for them. No welfare or food stamps program exist. Private non-profit nongovernmental organizations & charities fill in the gap. Haven Baptist created an ministry that Workfare that designed to get mothers , fathers or the people with disabilities out of the welfare system by assisting them in getting gainful employment. They also provide psychological, professional, spiritual , emotional, and mental counseling/therapy for individuals enrolled in Workfare.
Alecia a therapist working for Workfare formed a support group for participants in the program that includes five women different walks of life Sage, Michelle,Jessica,Helena and Cleopatra .She created a basic character synopsis for each the women:
Sage : thiry-five single & childless woman who owns an spa& massage therapy business called Healthy Delights.She grow up in an atheist household where concept of God, the Bible,Gospel of Jesus Christ was forbidden knowledge.
Michelle: a single twenty- seven mother of one aged five whose partner disappeared while she was pregnant. She invited her friend Sage to her church. Michelle a former welfare dependent mother struggling to overcome her past.
Jessica:Michelle,s twin sister an single woman whose a Sunday school teacher children age 5-7 works as a professional development counselor at Workfare
Helena: a pastor wife mid-fifites head of the women,s ministry at Haven Baptist Church. She also teach biblically illiterate women such as Sage
Cleopatra:a street wise teenager foster daughter of Helena who close to age out of the foster -care system. The state took Cleopatra at the age of ten years when her parents abandoned her during first stage of economic crisis .She runaway three times before Helena became her foster mother
Chapter I
MICHELLE
Michelle lives with her five -year daughter Natalia in small green house on top of hill . She is the member of Haven Baptist Church and takes care of their vegetable/ herb garden. Michelle also enrolled in Workfare after her welfare check & food stamps stopped two years ago in final stage of the collapse .She began taking Bible and entrepreneurship classes offered by Haven Baptist.Michelle desires to grow her own garden and sell the produce on the local Farmer’s Market. Helena, Michelle’s mentor noticed her natural talent for gardening approach her after she finished planting peppers.
“Michelle,” Our garden is flourishing under your care and blooming in abundance.””When I went on a road trip with Cleopatra exploring ghost towns, I saw land of sale on the property?”
“Strange,”It makes sense, people are desperate ,since the government collapsed.””I have noticed an increase of land being available for sale .
Residents of Willow Tree witnesses a rare event of the Strawberry Moon that puzzled them.They lived in previously uninhabited Greek Island rule predominantly by women.
The female residents of Willow Tree celebrate the event of the Strawberry Moon every 19-20 years.The women in community celebrate Summer Solstice from June 20-22 as part of their worship of the Moon Goddess.They utilize photography as a memorial of the religious& spiritual event and photographers also record Strawberry Moon phenomenon for each generation.
The residents are Biblically illiterate and have no knowledge of the Christian faith because, terrorists ban Christianity after the nuclear war.
The leaders of community churches honor Father,s Day on third Sunday in June by offer free lunches after morning service for fathers and their families. The clergy of Santuary Baptist Church offer evening worship & singing on Friday and Saturday dedicated to The Heavenly Father and Immanuel Jesus Christ.
The pastor of Santuary Baptist Church preach a special message at 2:00 pm after the Sunday luncheon on Father,s Day.
The Fantastic Journey Bookstores/Cafe provide 15% discounts for fathers on coffee,latte, mocha, cappuccino, coffee, tea and all food items.
Every last Monday in May ,the residents honor the fallen service men & women who sacrifice their lives to freedom& citizens of the United States of America. At the end of the pandemic leaders also created an monument of all fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, grandfathers & males who died of X-Y Experiment Plague. They hired stonesmith to built the monument made of limestone with golden bold letters with the words:In the Memory of Lost Men that include the purple cross underneath the lettering .
Memorial evening, the churches offers free dinners for singles,military family &friends.The members of Santuary Baptist Church grilled cheeseburgers, bratwursts, chicken, hot-dogs & variety of steak. The women &singles ministries makes homemade side dishes such as potato salad, German fruit platter, corn in the cob, and marconi & cheese.
Timeless Theatre offers outside plays that provides reactment of battles of The Revolutionary ,Civil.World War 1, 2,3.
Litenaunt Jonathan Lakes testify at House of Representative & Congress
A zombie apocalypse known as Bioware Z cause by a bioterriost organization called Freedom Rides who desires to destroy the United States & her allies.The leader vows vengeance on the United States Government for their inference in the homeland Middle East.
They unleashed the bioweapon when Litenaunt Jonathon Lakes discover their bioterriost cell & destroyed them.The leader put an failsafe that trigger an explosion when their cell becomes comprise.
Stadium City one of the few communities virtually untouched by the zombie outbreak because of quarantine measures by the military.
The plague ravaged the United States killing 98 percent of the population and wipeout the largest metropolitan areas of America leaving no survivors News spread of the destruction aftermath of the destruction of the American cities prompt ing local government of the rural communities & cities issued an quarantine & martial law.
The residents of Santuary 2100 celebrate St.Patrick, Day to honor the Americans of Irish heritage & descent.
The leaders and founders of Santuary 2100 declare March as Irish -American month two years after historical restoration of western ghost- town.
Churches offers free St.Patrick,s Day traditional Irish breakfast & luncheon to the public part of their ministry to the Irish-American community.
Aunt Faith,s Fantastic Journey bookstore also offers classes on Irish history,culture and the arts. Students received discount if they working on degree in Archeology,or Cultural Anthropology and other related studies connected in Ireland.
The bookstore also have courses in month of March on Cultural Anthropology and Archeology on Ireland plus support archeological exploration of the country.Needy student could apply work -study aid.
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