Magnotics: Escape From New York

By John R. Kenton

What better way to tell you about our new story than by exercising your imagination and playing a little game of "Let's Pretend"; after all isn't that what fiction is all about?To help you get into the right frame of mind, to really understand and feel what the story is all about, suppose we make believe that all the power that we all take for granted and we use to provide our food, communications, entertainment, transportation and so much more is no longer available. Just what would you do? Especially since most of your friends and family are scattered all over the area, how could you ever bring them back together, contact them or ever see or hear from them again?"Hmm", you might say to yourself, when you first realize that "the power must have gone off", but I'm betting your language would be somewhat harsher when the full scope of the problem becomes more and more apparent. You might glance out the window and see that's it's a bright and sunny day and you might even think that its "strange" that the theres no power, since you can't remember when the power ever went off without a storm of some kind going on.Logic and experience would tell you to check the fuse box or the circuit breakers. But first how about calling the the neighbors and see if their power is on. Lifting the telephone receiver you discover the only sound you hear is your own breathing. Forgetting the fuse box for the moment you head outside.Where your surprised to see a number of people milling around, most gathered around cars which appear to have stalled in the middle of the street. Some had their hoods up and a number of guys were focusing their attention on pulling on things under the hoods, while others seemed to have accepted that their vehicles would no longer run and were pushing them over to the side of the road.Then you notice that most had their cell phones out and were punching the buttons, raising the phone to their ear, looking at the screen, taping them against one of their legs or shutting them off and turning them back on and continuing to repeat the whole procedure, until in frustration they came to the conclusion that like everyone else's around them, the phone just isn't going to work.Just then you hear a loud roaring noise overhead, almost like a freight train passing above, jerking your head back your just in time to see one of the largest airplanes you've ever seen in your life passing rapidly out of your view. "Wow" you say to yourself or maybe something more volger, as you turn to try to see where it is going. "Looks as if it's trying to land", you think; but that's ridiculous the airport is miles from here.Seconds later you hear an enormous gigantic scraping sounds and then a series of explosions and you see plumes of black smoke shooting up into the sky above the tree line, followed by tips of raging flames and raising rivers of billowing smoke.Suddenly you realize that this is not your ordinary power outage. Not only is the electricity not working, but it looks as if petroleum powered vehicles aren't working either. If that's so, the ramifications of this are going to be enormous."Oh my God", you find yourself whispering as the thought comes to mind, "Those poor people on the plane, without vehicles there's no police, fire, no ambulances or emergency medical service available. Hell, there's not even a way to call them, even if they could respond.""Holy crap, I didn't think about this before, but if this keeps up in a couple of days, there'll be no food, what than? Hopefully someone will figure this out and turn the power back on. But if they don't, what are we going to do, how is my family going to get home, how are we going to protect ourselves, how are we going to survive"?Aren't you glad that it's only pretend?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521289980
• ISBN13: 9781521289983
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"