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The Dust #4
Tribe
After the Icelandic eruption, the volcanic dust cloud slowly moved south enveloping Northern Europe.
At first the human population were only mildly effected, some with common cold symptoms, others with sore throats.
Some fell into a forty eight hour deep sleep, they were the lucky ones. Some never woke up at all, dying where they lay.
Some on the other hand never closed their eyes, they became, The Infected.
As the dust entered the bloodstream it mutated, curdling the blood, rendering the host helpless and eventually driving them insane. Crazed and blood thirsty they rampaged naked across the land killing anything in their path. Men, women, children and even animals were ripped apart.
The world would never be the same again.
As for the lucky ones, the humans with an AB and A positive blood type, they woke to find a living hell. Those that weren’t killed in their sleep soon wished they had been. Most wished they’d never woken up at all.
Pockets of bedraggled survivors began to move across the continents reaching out for help but they found very little. Soon they turned on each other.
Bands of men and women formed small armies and movements determined to take control of the new world. Most failed, lots were torn from limb to limb by the marauding Infected as they swept through the country.
However, for the Infected their time was short lived. Man soon worked out a way to disable the naked beasts.
In the United Kingdom in particular, they virtually wiped out all of the Infected by infecting them with the Norovirus.
The road to recovery was long. Corpses were rotting wherever they had fallen and large amounts of survivors perished when they were hit by a new plague. The whole country had become one huge mass grave.
The struggle to feed the dwindling population also proved hard. A harsh winter was followed by one of the longest dry spells Britain had ever known. Those who were old and weak died. The babies unfortunate to be born into this hell on earth were also lost.
Large chunks of Iceland had fallen back into sea. The land that remained had become a furnace of lava and volcanic explosions, toxic fumes continued to bellow into the atmosphere.
The delicately balanced climate over the North Atlantic had changed. The rain clouds had disappeared and the hot sun was scorching the earth.
Britain was on its knees, the population had been decimated and those who remained were now hungry.
Survivors were now scattered across the land living in small nomadic tribes. The outlook was bleak, living from hand to mouth on a daily basis. But worse was still to come.
Unbeknown to many there was an even bigger danger looming, and lay just across the water.
A swarm has amassed in Northern France sweeping up from the rest of Europe and Asia. They have left nothing in their wake, a killing machine whose thirst for blood knows no boundaries. There is now only one more country left to pillage.
Britain!
At first the human population were only mildly effected, some with common cold symptoms, others with sore throats.
Some fell into a forty eight hour deep sleep, they were the lucky ones. Some never woke up at all, dying where they lay.
Some on the other hand never closed their eyes, they became, The Infected.
As the dust entered the bloodstream it mutated, curdling the blood, rendering the host helpless and eventually driving them insane. Crazed and blood thirsty they rampaged naked across the land killing anything in their path. Men, women, children and even animals were ripped apart.
The world would never be the same again.
As for the lucky ones, the humans with an AB and A positive blood type, they woke to find a living hell. Those that weren’t killed in their sleep soon wished they had been. Most wished they’d never woken up at all.
Pockets of bedraggled survivors began to move across the continents reaching out for help but they found very little. Soon they turned on each other.
Bands of men and women formed small armies and movements determined to take control of the new world. Most failed, lots were torn from limb to limb by the marauding Infected as they swept through the country.
However, for the Infected their time was short lived. Man soon worked out a way to disable the naked beasts.
In the United Kingdom in particular, they virtually wiped out all of the Infected by infecting them with the Norovirus.
The road to recovery was long. Corpses were rotting wherever they had fallen and large amounts of survivors perished when they were hit by a new plague. The whole country had become one huge mass grave.
The struggle to feed the dwindling population also proved hard. A harsh winter was followed by one of the longest dry spells Britain had ever known. Those who were old and weak died. The babies unfortunate to be born into this hell on earth were also lost.
Large chunks of Iceland had fallen back into sea. The land that remained had become a furnace of lava and volcanic explosions, toxic fumes continued to bellow into the atmosphere.
The delicately balanced climate over the North Atlantic had changed. The rain clouds had disappeared and the hot sun was scorching the earth.
Britain was on its knees, the population had been decimated and those who remained were now hungry.
Survivors were now scattered across the land living in small nomadic tribes. The outlook was bleak, living from hand to mouth on a daily basis. But worse was still to come.
Unbeknown to many there was an even bigger danger looming, and lay just across the water.
A swarm has amassed in Northern France sweeping up from the rest of Europe and Asia. They have left nothing in their wake, a killing machine whose thirst for blood knows no boundaries. There is now only one more country left to pillage.
Britain!
219 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 15, 2016
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About the author
David H. Sharp
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David was born in Usk South Wales in the early seventies. He has been writing for some years but his first novel 'The Murder of Crows' was released in 2012.
His second book 'The Dust' is the start of a new series and was released June 2013.
Now residing just outside Cardiff he is currently working on his second book in the 'Dust' series and hopes to release it in the winter of 2013.
You can follow him on twitter as David H Sharp@stoatshady.
Or email him on his author website davidsharp007@fsmail.net
David was born in Usk South Wales in the early seventies. He has been writing for some years but his first novel 'The Murder of Crows' was released in 2012.
His second book 'The Dust' is the start of a new series and was released June 2013.
Now residing just outside Cardiff he is currently working on his second book in the 'Dust' series and hopes to release it in the winter of 2013.
You can follow him on twitter as David H Sharp@stoatshady.
Or email him on his author website davidsharp007@fsmail.net
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May 21, 2017
Book 4-The Dust
I loved all these books,great read,lots of action!!! I've tried to read them slow,to make them last but too good to put down!!!
I loved all these books,great read,lots of action!!! I've tried to read them slow,to make them last but too good to put down!!!
October 14, 2017
OMG
This installment of the story is so intense and tragic. A wave of infected, hundreds of thousands strong is invading the country. Part of our group go off to fight them. In meantime danger is closing in on the valley. Very scary and some of our group are lost. I can't wait for the next book.
This installment of the story is so intense and tragic. A wave of infected, hundreds of thousands strong is invading the country. Part of our group go off to fight them. In meantime danger is closing in on the valley. Very scary and some of our group are lost. I can't wait for the next book.
May 5, 2017
The Dust
An amazing and powerful post apocalyptic story. One for all Dystopian readers. This is the great one, get your copy today!
An amazing and powerful post apocalyptic story. One for all Dystopian readers. This is the great one, get your copy today!
May 27, 2017
I enjoyed the series. It kept me interested all the way.
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