Monday, May 21, 2012

Jimmy's First Page

It was a typical foggy day in San Francisco. The wind was blowing across Clayton's face as he walked around abandoned cars on the lifeless great red bridge. Sweat was dripping down his forehead as he dragged a small refrigerator behind him. He was treading slowly, avoiding the pockets of radiation that still remain scattered across the road.
"If only these cars still worked" he thought to himself. "Then I wouldn't have to haul this damn fridge all the way back."
The only technology that still worked on the surface were weapons. Almost everything else stopped working after years of sitting in the weather and neglect. And plus, even if somebody were to try and fix something they wouldn't know how since almost all documentation has been lost.
He proceeded to walk down down the bridge towards the once great city of San Francisco. From where he was, he was only able to see the tips of the destroyed skyscrapers through the thick fog. He thought of how grand the city must have once been, but it now lay in irradiated ruins. He dreamed of how wonderful and easy life must have once been, of how it was before the Third War. But now here he was, dragging refrigerator across a 2 mile bridge, prepared to get ambushed by bandits at any moment.
By the time he got to the opposite side of the bridge the sun have already began to set.
"Dammit," he muttered to himself. He had to get back to the settlement while there was still sunlight or he would be unable to find his way back. He quickened his pace and headed towards the heart of the broken city.
Despite quickening his pace, he still wasn't moving as quickly as he would have liked to be. After all, carrying a thirty pounds of weaponry while hauling a small refrigerator up the San Franciscan slopes isn't an easy task. He had to be careful with the refrigerator though. It contained several packages of Nuka-Cola, the irradiated, thirst-quenching, tumor-enhancing soft drink of the wastelands. Nuka-Cola was one of the few substances remaining that doesn't cause a person to vomit after consuming. However, it also contains significant amounts of cocaine, a substance that Clayton is addicted to.

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