it.
Or perhaps dbzsex she no longer cared.
The old woman surely knew she couldn't live to reach the Iowa side-no
one from the contaminated area crossed the river and lived more than a few
seconds, a few minutes. She must have known dbzsex it and counted
on it. She was
one of the unlucky thousands still struggling for an existence east of dbzsex the
river, and she would remain there until she died. There was no other real
choice, no other dbzsex future. But sometimes the death on the bridge was much
preferred to the death in what remained of a home.
The rifle cracked in the blackness. Good night, old woman.
Gary lay still, waiting. There was no other sound for long minutes. He
knew dbzsex the dbzsex routine now, had watched it many times during the daylight hours
on his slow, plodding trip upstream from the Gulf. Some soldier garbed in a
dbzsex white radiation suit would walk out onto the bridge while his mates covered
him, move the old body with a toe of his boot, searching for a spark of
dbzsex life. If there was still movement he dbzsex would put a pistol shot through her
head. Finally he would pick up the body and
hurl it over the guardrail. And
then the man in the white suit would retire to a dbzsex small brick building at
the opposite foot of the bridge.
He seemed to hear a faint splash. The wind dbzsex was in the wrong direction
and he couldn't be sure, but the hungry old woman was undoubtedly dbzsex floating
downstream by now. She had reached out and secured what she must have
wanted.
He crawled backward off the bridge approach dbzsex and sought the sanctuary of
a near-by field, cautiously seeking out the hollow depression where he had
been lying when the dbzsex old woman passed a half hour before. Nearing the spot,
he stopped to listen and sniff the air, to satisfy himself no intruder had
hidden there while he was away. Curiosity had made him follow
the woman,
dbzsex the morbid curiosity of an onlooker who dbzsex knows the game will end in
disaster. She had been carrying no food, he saw that in his first swift
scrutiny and again realized it when he became aware dbzsex of her intentions. Had
she been dbzsex carrying anything to eat she wouldn'dbzsex t have attempted to cross the
bridge, and he would have forcibly taken it dbzsex from her. The old and the lame
dbzsex lose their meager dbzsex rations to the quick and the young.
But her arms had been bare and there were no bulges to her pockets. So
he had indifferently let her go onto the bridge, silently following