Terror
My name is Frankie.I use was born in Kansas and lived there till I was 18. So I was use to having little contact with technology until I moved to New York. A year after I moved on June 5, 2018 it happened. Everything piece of tech I owned, became useless. The United States had been hit with an EMP Lets go back to the beginning.
May 3 2017
I'm sitting in the school gym while we do out graduation practice. I look around at these people and I think where the hell did these people come from and where have some of them been. At my school as a senior you only need two classes one if you took Government over summer classes, so I can somewhat understand why I've never seen them. Id only have one class but my parents don't want to help me get a car so I have a full day. It completely sucks ass. I wonder why this whole process is even needed. I'm just leaving high school, its not Ive done something major, or maybe I have and I just don't give a damn about it. I just what the hell out of this god forsaken town.
After sitting in the schools gym for two hours and getting out of classes I walk out an hour early, what are they going to do tell me I cant walk. If I walk or not I don't give a damn, shit they can kick me out for all I care. I open the front door of my ranch style house. It smells of baked goods, my moms hobby is baking. I swear if that damn stove broke mom would go insane.
"Hey Kiddo!"
"Don't call me kiddo I'm seventeen years old damn it!" I yell back at my father. Ive hated being called kiddo since I was seven. I walk down the hallway to my room. I look up at the posters Ive pinned to my ceiling, old school rock bands like System of a Down, Korn, Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails. Someday Ill leave this town and go someplace big, I think to myself. I look out the window to vast nothing. Colby, Kansas has come a long way though.
When we first moved here back in 2006 it was us and the cows. Now were got an elementary school, a middle school and Colby High. About 10 years ago they built a Super Wal-mart. Made the town more then a stop off the freeway, but besides that this town is still nothing more then a place where the cows out number the people. They milk the cows and ship the milk to the Hershey factory about 150 miles away. When the cows are no longer milk-able I've been told they sell the cows to this slaughter house in Denver. Lucky cows. I'd rather be dead them living here. I close my eyes and next thing I know my mom is calling me for dinner.
"Francesca. Francesca come eat!"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT DAMN NAME!"
I enter the kitchen and my plate. Nothing but baked food, sometimes I really just want to take a bat to that damn stove. Everything we eat in this house is baked, I never thought I said this out loud but I did
"WHY THE FUCK DO YOU BAKE EVERYTHING! DID NANA NOT TEACH YOU SHIT AS A LITTLE GIRL!"
Here face turns red as it feels with rage. The table goes quite as the everyone including me has already forseen the outcome of exchange I've just made with my mother. She reaches out and smacks me shitless. My little brother breaks into a laughing frenzy, until I smack him shitless too and mom hit me again this time knocking me out of my chair. My and my twelve year old brother are lying on the kitchen floor holding our mouths tearing eyed. He spits in my face and runs off; I dont see the point in chasing him if hes just going to his room to cry. I wipe my face with my sleeve and get up. I make a move for the front door I stumble and pass out. Mom hit me harder then I thought.