First Stoplight Novels & Stories

The convoy trundled along the bumpy road, while Yvonne shed her tears in silence. Nobody cared about her crying. My co-driver turned up the radio's volume to drown her sobs out. … We got to our destination by evening. The center's door was ajar, but everything inside was shrouded in darkness. Once I delegated the tasks to my team, we carefully made our way in. Yves and Yvonne were in the vanguard. They were human shields if we ran into any zombies. Fortunately, there was no danger in this abandoned place. We didn't even spot a single zombie along the way.

"Initiate the Blackout Protocol. If they want to audit me, let’s see how they do it in the dark." Suddenly, every light in the county—the porch light, the SUV's sensors, even the distant town's glow—died. The only thing left was the bioluminescent blue pulsing from the "Chronicle" on the Traveler’s arm in the distance, and the terrifying, silent scream of a mother ready to kill for her child.

The hospital was far from his home. The traffic light suddenly turned red. Rai stopped the car and immediately Rohit erupted from his thoughts, glaring at Rai he kept wondering why Rai would stop at the light of the traffic when there was no one in sight. They were the only car there, at the route, Rohit eyes were fixed at Rai, and when Rai noticed him, he didn't understood why Rohit was staring at him that way. "Why aren't driving?" Rohit asked Rai. "Traffic light turned red." Rai said as he pointed at the traffic light.

He got to a traffic light a red light turned on "Shit....." he uttered to himself, hit the driving wheel pulling the car to a stop, and wanted impatiently for the car to turn green. After a while of waiting, the light finally turned green. Clifford took off again about to cross the crossroad when he saw a speed trailer fast approaching his car. The next thing he heard was a huge sound crash into his car and everywhere went blank Riley walked over to the door and was unlocking it she felt some strange sound of movements behind her. Startled, she quickly turned.

Andrew, Daniel, Alex and even Lisa is also present at the party. "When they came Mr Alex?" Lisa asked. "Sorry, miss Green, I don't know about that. Maybe they are on the way", Alex replied. Suddenly they all hear the sound of the car and immediately understood. They all went to switch off the lights to gives surprise to Emily. When Emily and Ryan get off from the car they saw all the mansion lights are off. "Ryan is there is a light cut in this area, why there is no light in the home?" Emily asked cutely.

“Copy. I might need Nash to relocate to a closer point just in case I need backup.” The line went dead as Khronos helped to relay the message. The wheeler approached the border of the Inner City and the Slums, slowing to a halt. I looked around and found myself not too far from Area Forty-One. Why would they stop in front of the infamous loony bin?

I come to a stop and switch the light on. “What are you doing here?”

I packed my stuff from my cubby into my tote. It was time. I was the last one again, left alone in the light of the work room. I stepped out the back door. My finger hesitated above the light switch. I knew I would get in trouble for leaving the light on, but I just couldn't do it. My hand shook. I couldn't make it flip the switch. I closed the door and locked it, then pressed my back against the door. The parking lot lay out before me cast in the yellow glow from the store sign above. The hornet was the only car in the lot. Damn thing. I briefly considered trying to start it again, but no, it wasn't worth the effort.

Looks like even after six years, Mother still hasn't outgrown her habit of saying one thing and meaning another! Leon smiled and reached for me. "I'm glad you came to your senses. Let's go home." In the past, when we traveled, he always took my hand to help me into the car. Right in front of them, I walked straight to the vehicle a short distance away, one marked with the crest of the Shadow Wastelands. Leon's and Lucas' faces fell at the same time.

I wanted to give Holden my virginity so many times, but we would both stop before it went too far. Amelia bounced up into the middle of us, being loud as always. “What’s up peeps? Whose piece of junk is this sitting in one of “our” parking spaces? They need to understand this is our territory.” It took everything in me to not cry. This day had started out so well and now it quickly went downhill. I was going to walk away before I started to cry. Holden grabbed my arm before I could get too far. “Baby, don’t pay any attention to what she says. You know how she is she doesn’t know how to keep her mouth shut. There is nothing wrong with your car.” I knew if I said anything I was going to break