BLOODSOAKED ASH Chapter 1 Hells Gate I remember the day it all began. The bomb went off in Washington. People ran, fled, some stayed on in awe and sadness, unaware of the radiation sickness from a dirty bomb breaking through the ranks of their immune system. New York became a ghost town, as the population fell ill, dying a slow painful death. The next memory was a flash of political argument, a terrorist cell in Syria …showed first 75 words of 12510 total…

…showed last 75 words of 12510 total…I gripped it and as I did layers of decay came off in my hands. I cautiously pulled open the door. It creaked and as it did my force sent it flying into the opposite wall. The fine dust like stone was cut up and more fell down. The lights in the corridor made a square shaft of light which showed up some of the shelves, the light catching a glass test-tube rack, so