Top Seven Places Where a Pandemic Could Start.

I keep getting reports from China and other places in the East. A lot of these are about a possible pandemic. I feel it is time that I make a list of some of the locations that a pandemic could start from.

Number 1-Chuck E Cheese.

Chuck E Cheese has a reputation of bad food and old video games. Those don’t give you a idea of a possible home for a pandemic.Lets think about this rationally. Many kids go to places like Chuck E Cheese all the time. Some of these might have a disease, but he has not shown signs of being ill. Lets also think of all of those machines and games that might not be cleaned every day. Mix those two and you have a breeding area for diseases.

Number 2- Bus Station.

This is a classic Hollywood pandemic start point, but it is realistic in that it could be a pandemic zone.With all the travel cross country and state, a bus can be deadly,

Number 3-Train Depo.

It is just like the bus station, but with slightly different rules. A train is bigger which means more people and a bigger chance of spreading a disease.

Number 4-Aiport.

This is just like the previous two, but with the ability to travel fast and go across countries in a day. This makes them a huge modern concern for medical and military researchers.

Number 5-Hospital.

With all those sick people, it is likely that a pandemic would come from one of these. For an example, two plague reports have shown that they came from a hospital. These where in Britain, around 2011.

Number 6-Shopping Centers/Malls.

These are prime places for a virus or a disease to mutate. There is a lot of people and a lot of cash exchanges, which has diseases on it. They don’t clean those ATM machines ether.

Number Seven-Schools.

As my friend Godhand has mentioned, schools can be a disease site.  A lot of people go here and at leased some of them might be sick. Doorknobs and pens are not cleaned. Lets also not forget lockers and the library which just adds to the exchange of disease.

I hope this list gave you a short, but good look at the possible pandemic zones. Stay safe everyone.

A Cool Publishing Company I was Recommended

Hello again readers.

One of my great Wattpad contacts gave me a link to a great online publishing company. They are called Dark Nexus Fiction and they do a great job with their stories. They are differently better writers then myself.

They have great prices for their Kindle stories, which is something that low-budget readers love. This is even more so if they read as much as I do. Here is a link to their great Facebook page. Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/dark.nexus.fiction

Black Flame Chapter 1- Going Up

Chapter 1- Not a Drive-by.

This chapter is dedicated to the people on Wattpad who have helped me out. You all know who you are.

(Quote of the chapter)

“The country is only three days from total collapse. Stores only have three days worth of food and supplies on their shelves. Most water-treatment-plants only have three days of chemicals in storage 90% of our shipping requires trucking at once during the process. With out a stable structure, life will not be the same.”-EverydayWeSurvive.

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“I’m on a Mexican radio, oh oh–” sings Gabe before being interrupted.

“Can we please have a minute of this trip without any noise?”asks James, who is in the back seat of the van.

“No can do my man. I got to keep the beat alive,”replies Gabe in a sing-like voice.

“I am the driver, and I say we all shut up. We are almost at the campsite and I would love it if we could just relax for once,” says Jacob, who is the driver of the four-wheel drive old Ford van. After that, none of them talk the rest of the way up the hill.

All three of the friends decided to go camping in Oregon to celebrate Jacob’s upcoming first deployment in the Army. Since they have always loved the outdoors since their days in the Boy-Scouts, they have always loved camping and what comes with it.

Since they figured that there are not many forests in Afghanistan, they decided to go camping one more time in their favorite camp-ground. It took many weeks of time scheduling, gathering of funds, and girl-friend begging to finally get their trip going.

They decided to go to Oregon since their part of Northern-California has a small amount of camp-grounds. Sure, the gas cost adds up, but the camping is both more exciting and cheaper for the most part.

“I can finally stretch my legs,” says Gabe after the van is parked in their empty lot. He proceeds ro start popping his fingers.

If you can not tell, Gabe is . . . weird. His appearance of a nine-teen year old, brown hair, gray eyes, and medium build are normal, but his personality is not average.

“For once, I am going to agree with you,” says James, who is putting on his boots while sitting on the passenger’s seat.

James is your average twenty year old with black-haired white guy with blue eyes and slim build. He is pretty good at computers, but board-games are his passion besides the outdoors.

“Once you guys are done taking your time, I need help unloading,” complains Jacob. He is in the process of getting the gear out of the van.

Jacob is your classic country-boy. He has always lived on a farm so he has skills that most people have forgotten. He is a twenty-year old with a slight heavy-build, green-eyes, and brown hair.

“Fine, fine, you lazy ass. We were just about to come over,” replies Gabe as he walks towards Jacob.

“I think we should reach our site by noon,” says James. He has his boots on and is moving towards the others.

“I was thinking around the same,” replies Jacob as he puts on his military-style backpack. It is filled completely with camping and survival gear. The rest of the boys have similar gear and bags, but they are civilian-style instead of military.

Their gear is a match-up of both civilian and military-surplus gear. Their kits have anything from a sleeping bag, to a water-filter. Some of it is untested, but most of it has been on at leased six trips. The newer stuff is a set of flashlights and a reusable-snap-light. The boys have been anxious to try these out ever since they bought them.

With that, they start their hike up the mountain. It takes them two hours of hard work and brutal-trailblazing to reach their camp-site. The site has a nice view of the valley bellow as well as plenty of trees to take cover with. It even has a small stream near it. In all. It’s a decent campsite.

“Man, what a view,” whispers James in wonder. As you can tell, James has a taste for the art that nature provides.

“Stop looking at trees and help us out,” says Jacob who is in the process of building their group tent. Gabe is getting the metal piping set up while Jacob is handling the fabric..

“Fine. You guys obviously can not appreciate fine art,” says James with a sigh. James wants to go to college to learn more about his passion, but he is almost afraid to tell his friends.

“We enjoy the outdoors man, but your obsessed,” jokes Gabe. If he knew what was around the corner for them, he would not joking.

“Yea, what ever,” grumbles James who proceeds to help out with the tent.

After fooling around and eating until around eleven-o-clock. Sense the tent is a three room tent, they each got their own room to sleep in. The cold mountain air batters the tent, but the boys are snug in their mummy-style sleeping-bags. It rained for a little while, but it was only a light-shower.

At around six-o-clock, Jacob wakes up. He creeps out of the tent so that he does not wake his companions. He goes to his nearby backpack and gets out his coffee kit. He is proud of his home-made kit that he made back in his scouting days. It has not failed him yet and he is glad of that.

Jackob has no clue what a simple mug of coffee will bring to him and his friends.

The backpack is completely dry because Jacob placed the bag under a nearby oak-tree. This prevented any rain from reaching the pack. His friends had similar ideas which included a tarp and a bevy-bag.

The smell of coffee being boiled under a portable wood burning stove wakes up James and Gabe from their deep sleep. They both rub their eyes as they leave the tent. They walk towards Jacob who is drinking from a camping-mug.

“Man, hand me a mug,” says Gabe. Both He and James reach Jacob, who hands out mugs to both of them. They drink the warm liquid while mentally waking up. They are differently not morning people.

‘Hay, what is that noise?” asks Gabe who is looking into the air. The others stop to listen, but don’t hear anything.

“What did you smoke last night?” laughs James. Gabe has been known for trying out the occasional drug.

“No man, I swear. I heard something just then,” replies Gabe. It is then that the sound of a powerful engine roars through the area. The next thing they know, a huge flaming commercial plane flies over them and it is heading right towards a valley.

“Holy Crap!” yells James. Not a minute later, the sound of a massive explosion echos through the entire mountain range. The boys look at each other with shocked expressions.

Jacob is the first to act. He grabs his bag and starts to head to the where he thinks the plane crashed. The other boys follow suit and they head out.

They start jogging up a nearby trail as the faint trail of smoke starts to appear from the source of the explosion. All three of them are afraid of what they would find.

Eight Military-History facts you never heard of.

1-German U-boats fought a resource war off the U.S coast.

Yes, this actually happened. During the WW2, the Germans has a secrete plan to destroy the incoming resources from America. They did this by using U-boats to attack shipping-boats. \

2-Germany invaded the U.S during WW2.

Another thing, we where invaded. Remember those U-boats? A small unit of Nazi troops was sent ashore to sabotage in-land supply-chains. This included bridges, highways, and tunnels. This plan failed because they landed near a Coast Guard base and where caught.

3-The Nazis made the first jet plane.

Yep, you heard that right. The Nazis made the first fighter jet plane.It was called the Messerschmitt Me 262. It was armed with anything from bombs to machine-guns. It was so expensive though that the Nazis could only make a small amount.

6-Nazis made the first atomic-bomb.

Yes, they made it. It was actually never fully designed, but they where close. Some military historians think that America used the German research to build the first usable nuclear-weapon.

7-Japan had navy ships off the U.S coast-line in WW2.

This was pretty big back in the day. At leased twenty times Japanese warships where seen off the coast in the middle of the war. Most historians think that they did not try to invade because they could not get enough military forces in one place to invade. Also, most of the population at the time had at leased one gun. The Japanese where reportedly afraid of the armed civilians.

8-The Russians had a Psych-Military!

During the Cold-War, both Russia and America had a “special” group in their military. Both sides gathered people with special abilities so that they could be used as weapons. Many of the tests failed, but some report taht some of the Psych actually had enough ability to do “something”.

I know most of these where set in WW2. That is where most of my research has been geared to that war.  If I get enough interest, I can do other time periods as well.

Black Flame( Post-Apocalyptic)-Opening

“Sometimes you can not defeat the dragon in a one-on-one fight. Sometimes, you just got to be sneaky.”

Cold wind and the sound of far off engines echo through the air as a tall mysterious man enters an old, rusted warehouse in the middle of a busy American city. He looks behind himself to see if he was followed. Once he sees that he was not, he closes the metal door.

The man’s boots step on pieces of glass from the hallway’s busted windows. He walks down the hallway without any haste: he does not need to. His waiting comrades need him for the next part of their plan more than he needs them.

It takes five minutes for the man to reach the doors that block the entrance to his destination: the room beyond the doors.

The door squeaks from neglect as the man pushes the door open. The room beyond is dark with no windows letting any natural light in the room. The man chose this room for this reason.

The only lumination in the room is an old Coleman gas lamp on the square meeting table that’s in the middle of the room.

Two other men, one older and one in his early twenties, are waiting for their well experienced comrade near the table. Once the man enters the room, the others start to relax.

“Aleski, what took you so long?”asks Bernardd, the younger man. You can tell his origins are Eastern-European by his accent. Aleski responds when he reaches the table.

“I thought I was being followed. I had to make sure that our plan would not be known to our enemies until it is too late for them to react.” He says this while he places his heavy leather briefcase onto the table. The two other men know what that case means to them.

“Are you sure it’s time?”asks the old man, Henry, the only American of the group. He has long disliked how the system works, and it is time for him to get back at the people who ruined his life.

“Now is the best chance we have. Our enemy is fighting in other lands while it should be looking more closely at home,”Aleski says while he opens the briefcase. The sound of the metal binders popping echos through the room.

“It is about time we finally do something. Those beasts have gone too far,” says Bernard, emotion filling his voice. Aleski places the papers from his briefcase onto the table. Each page gives a part of a detailed plan to win over their enemy.

“Are the teams in place?” Aleski asks Henry, who is in charge of personnel and supplies.

“They are ready as can be. Everything from equipment to the boats are just waiting for our signal,” replies Henry, who is eyeing the plans to check for any possible problems. He of course does not.

“What about the security? Has that been taken care of?”asks Bernard, who is looking at the plans as well.

“What little security was there is now taken care of. It has ether been replaced, or has been taken out by other means,” replies Aleski.

“Is there anything else you need of us?”asks Henry, who is gathering the few positions he brought with him: a hat, a revolver, and a sense of self-wealth.

“No, that is all my comrades. The next time we see each other, America and the world will be a different place,”replies Aleski, who is gathering the papers and returning it to his briefcase.

With that, they leave the building through separate exits. Aleski Azarov is correct. America and the world will truly never be the same.

How reading Military-History can make You a better fiction writter.

So, you want to write a fictional story? You have a great idea, but you feel you are missing some key items.

If you have any action or military scenes in your story; it might be a good idea to pick up a Military-History book from your library.

What could you get from reading this? You could get a different feel of the time period that you are writing in.You can learn actual military tactics for your characters. And you can get a feel for the terrible hell that war actually is.

“War is Hell. You just got to die first before you realize it”- James Cook.

I think you will get a reality-check if you read what has happened and what may be in the future in warfare.

Military-History resources:

The Art of War. Here is a audiobook link on YouTube.

Documentary on The Art of War.

Snafu( Great American Military Disasters) by Geoffry Regan.

In Afghanistan by Jere Van Dyk

Kara Kush by Idries Shah

War in the Pacific by Jerome T. Hagen

Acts of War by Richard Holmes

Dragon Days by H. John Poole

Podcasts:

History of WW2 podcast on iTunes.

Ancient Warfare Podcast on iTunes.

Revolutions podcast on iTunes.

Wartime podcast on iTunes.

Movies/T.V:

Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War- The Balkans Tinderbox

Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War- Mao’s Secrets

1979 – 1989 Soviet – Afghan War

-Korean War- Documentary Film 1950-1953

20th Century Battlefields 1973 Middle East

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I saw this on Facebook. I figured I would share it on here for you guys.

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Book Review: 299 Days

Picture taken by me.

What can I say about the 299 Days book series wrote by Glenn Tate? It gives a great and interesting look to what I would call a soft collapse.

A soft collapse is a when only parts of a society crumble, not the whole. It is this reason why I feel it would be easier for something like 299 Days to actually happen then a full collapse.

The first story, The Preparation, starts with a interesting look at Grant’s(main character) life. I will not give spoliation sense it was that good, in my opinion.

The middle of the story is when it really gets good. Grant at this time period has become a lawyer for a local government in Washington State. He has left his roots and has become a suburban slug. He feels that his life is perfect just the way it is. Some time later, Grant gets information that re-awakens him.

He starts listening to preparedness podcasts, buying food, water, and even a gun. Since he has not done things like this in a long time, Grant feels like it is socially awkward to do things like this.

Later on, Grant joins a shooting team where he improves his shooting skills. latter on; he learns that his shooting friends don’t mind that he is a prepper. They learn to trust each other and gain skills that would help them during a emergency.

At the end of book 1, the collapse is starting. Social government starts to fall. People start to become aware of events. People even start to riot which pushes the governments to react.

The rest of the series gives you at different looks at the collapse.  Book two is set at the beginning. Book four is in the middle. Book six is at the beginning of the rebuilding.

I have only ready up to book six so far and I have loved every second of it. I can not wait until I can get my hands on the last four books in the series.

Realism 9/10

Plot 9/10

Survival Information 7/10

Readability 8/10

Repeatability 7/10

Would I share with friends and family? ( Yes)

Final Score 8/10

299 Days did not pull any punches and had a great overall plot with survival information mixed in. These factors pretty much forced me to give this great series a high score.

External Links:

299days.com

http://youtu.be/-of2SmNKOI0 Video Interview

http://poormanprepper.com/tag/author-of-the-299-days-preparedness-novels/

Episode-957- Glen Tate – Author of the New Book Series “299 Days”