Black Friday The Accidental Third War – Ira Tabankin

“Coffee will be ready when you get up.” “Great.” She leaned over to whisper, “I have a bad feeling about the kids.” Looking at my face, Rose said, “I think I already know what you’re about to tell me.” I gently patted Rose’s shoulder. I whispered to Rose, “There’s no way they can make it. Without power, they can’t pump gas, and that’s even if their SUVs will start.” “Doesn’t Randolf have a Jeep?” “He does, but it’s a newer one, so it’s most likely sitting in the garage dead as a doornail.”

Rose asked, “Have you tried the little car in the garage? Do you think since it was inside it will start?” “No. I don’t want to be disappointed. I have a lot of things to do before I screw with the car. Yours is working, so if we need a car, we have one, and Ed across the street has his Impala that I’m sure will run. The little one might start, I had installed a metal screen inside the garage over the cars.

It might have been enough to protect them. The first thing I want, need to do, is check the wind.” Rose was confused, “I don’t understand. What’s the wind got to do with anything?” She smiled, the first one I’d seen since breakfast, “Are you planning on building a sailboat? Expecting a flood on top of the war?” I hugged her, she was so cute, “Honey, the wind carries the fallout.

I assume the nuke over Oak Ridge was an air burst that would generate very little fallout. However, it also most likely sucked up all of the radioactive material in the reactor and stored nuclear weapons waiting to be taken apart. This will not only increase the amount of the fallout, but it will also make it deadlier. The direction of the wind will tell me how much we have to worry. Understand?” “Now I do. Why didn’t you just say that in the beginning?” “Because my mind was racing at one hundred miles per hour.”

“You know, Randy, up the street, the Deputy Sheriff will give you a ticket for mentally exceeding the speed limit.” I broke up laughing and hugged her. She always had a way of cutting through my stress. Jason, who lived across the street, had this wind rooster that the wind spun; his kids loved watching it. I studied the direction of the wind and nodded.

I want to thank my beta readers, who helped me with their knowledge, comments, and encouragement. I want to thank Cassandra Kardeke, who edited and made this edition possible. Note: Please note that this isn’t a politically correct novel. Please recognize that artistic license is used throughout this story. Any tense disparities are the author’s view of the story as it’s written. Work of Fiction: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner.

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. A Note on Punctuation: Much of this story is a conversation between people; when we speak, we don’t do so in the same manner as the written word. Pauses in the written word aren’t usually there when we talk to each other. As such, the punctuation used in conversations is written as people speak, not as it would be in a written paragraph. Copyright March 2024 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher.

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Note on Names: The names of the respective countries’ leaders in this story are the same, and all the supporting staff have fictional names. NOTE from the Department of National Records Preservation (By a FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] Request) that was filed on September 22, 2040, this copy of the document known as “Black Friday, the Accidental Third War, Book 1” is released only for historical purposes.

It is not to be released to any foreign entity. The journal is a series of notebooks discovered in August 2037 when the Army’s First Response team arrived in the author’s neighborhood to restore power and take a census of the survivors. The author wrote most of the journal in first person, and the Department of National Records Preservation has decided to leave it as is.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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