Fermata: The Winter: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series (The Fermata Series: Four Post-Apocalyptic Novellas Book 1) (8 page)

And then he took another step.

And then he recognized her.

Vick didn’t tell Lucy that she had actually known that man. Not well. And she wasn’t a hundred percent sure until she’d approached the body for a closer look and saw the lapel pin. The one she’d looked at a hundred times at that very bank when she deposited her checks. He’d been the teller she always used. What was his name? Joe? Jack? John? Anyway. She knew the lapel pin. A tiny Masonic square and compass with a diamond in the center.

She also knew that before she put the second bullet between Joe/Jack/John’s eyes, he had recognized her, too. The fact of that glimmer of cognition was something she didn’t know how to process. The dead didn’t recognize you. They weren’t people anymore. Or were they?

When that thought entered Vick’s mind, everything about their situation changed.

To be continued . . .
 

About The Fermata Post-Apocalyptic

Survival Series

The Fermata Series is a collection of novellas

by Juliette Harper, the author

of
The Lockwood Legacy
novels,

the
Selby Jensen Paranormal Mysteries
,

the
Study Club Mysteries
,

and the
Before Series
short-story romances.

Want to know more about author Juliette Harper

and all of her projects?

Visit Juliette Harper’s home on the web

at
www.julietteharper.com

Other books by Juliette Harper:

The Lockwood Legacy

Langston’s Daughters

Baxter’s Draw

Alice’s Portrait

Selby Jensen Paranormal Mysteries

Descendants of the Rose

The Study Club Mysteries

You Can’t Get Blood Out of Shag Carpet

The Before Series

Before Marriage

Fermata: The Winter

A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

By Juliette Harper

Copyright © 2015, Juliette Harper.

Skye House Publishing

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