The Survivalistas

Chapter 10 Lyric gave Marcus an encouraging smile as he grabbed the pummel of his saddle to steady himself. “Use your legs to hold on.” She murmured bringing her horse along side his. “I'm trying.” He gritted out of clenched teeth, as he held onto the saddle with one hand and reins with the other. She placed a hand on his leg, “Try to let the horse do all the work. Just roll with her.” Marcus nodded tensely as Indie called, “We're almost there I see the parking lot just ahead.” They trotted up the road and turned into a gravel parking lot. Indie headed straight for the trail, which was big enough for them to ride side by side. Lyric and Marcus rode behind Indie and Ryan as they made their way up the rocky path. When they were about half way down the trail, Indie held up a hand stopping them. That's when Lyric noticed it was quiet, none of the normal animal sounds. Even the birds had stopped singing. A crunch sounded from their left, then another, like footsteps. Slow u...

Lately I've been feeling scattered, like my mind is a million places at once and I can't get it together. I can't focus, I can't sleep (at least not without a night cap), I'm stress eating, I have no energy and I want to scream daily. Last week I felt like strangling someone with a bikini top at work, no I did not do it but I felt like it. I'm once again behind on reviews, which is not helping things. I had this cool thing I wanted to do for my readers and that's in the toilet, sorry folks getting my crap together has not been easy. I'm stressed about money, my mom, my mother-in-law (who has had some health problems come up), work, the kids, school crap (buying school stuff, C going to school, paperwork etc.) reviews (even though I know I shouldn't be), DK's new health obsession, and other little things that keep popping up.  © Kguzel | Dreamstime.com I have this urge to run, weird I know but I really want to just go running. Yesterday we went o...

***** Lyric leaned against the counter only half listening to the argument going on at the kitchen table. Exhaustion was finally catching up with her. “We should attack now while their weal.” Earl was saying and for some reason Lyric found this highly amusing, laughter bubbling out of her. “Attack? It's nine of us against a group of who knows how many of them. Sure we wounded a couple, but they still out number us. We only survived that attack, because we had a heads up.” Marcus shot her a worried look, but nodded in agreement. “She's right. What we need is some recon. Find out what's going on over there then plan.” Indie sat looking from one face to another, her gaze lingered on Lyric for a brief moment. No doubt taking in her dark circled eyes and tired posture. Lyric drew herself up, as Indie stated. “Tonight Ryan, Marcus, Ira and I will go to the town. We'll see if we can get an idea of what's going on.” Oh hell no, Lyric was not letting her boys go without h...