Lone Star Zombie - The Battlefield Z series
CHAPTER ONE Before. I stopped watching the news because I read somewhere that successful people focused on things they could control. It’s hard to control the news. It’s designed for shock value, and in a game of ratings, most news reporting started to rely on shock value. I feel I may have missed out on a lot. Sometimes, I’d watch gas prices shoot up and wonder what happened to affect the price. Then I’d click into a station and hear that the President was making remarks about the Middle East, which would make oil prices rise, and speculators would rush in to change the price of a barrel. Then gas stations which were owned by conglomerates working in the Middle East would raise the price of gas. It made a lot of investment guys rich and took money away from most of the working people I knew at the time. Twenty bucks a week more for gas didn’t hurt someone who made six figures a year, but a single mom would suffer from the loss. I thought about that as I ...
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