After the Virus - a Surviralist's Journal
Episodes
29 episodes
Season 2 Episode 1: P.V.11 - Eleven Years Post Virus
Contained here is a reading of Chapters one and two of Book Two of The Surviralist’s Series: Surviralist’s Birthright.As of March 14, 2034, it has been estimated that approximately four million humans remained al...
BONUS Episode: Author Interview
This interview was recorded on April 16, 2021 by Gayle Kimball for her radio show "Ask Dr, Gayle" on KZFR public radio in Chico, Ca, She asks great questions that elicit answers about details of story and the motivation behind producing i...
Season 1 Episode 1: Then I was Completely Alone
Narrated in the style of a daily diary, Episode One is Will’s recounting of the days leading up to his first journal entry, and explains the events that brought him to his cave in the wilderness. It describes how climate change prompted the mut...
Season 1 Episode 2: Pistol Shots at 4 a.m.
After shuttling the remainder of his supplies to his new cave, Will finds that he’s not alone in the wilderness as shots break the stillness before dawn. Going to investigate the old hunting cabins downslope, he discovers that even here the vir...
Season 1 Episode 3: Tastes Like Chicken
As Will settles into his remote camp the threat of human violence is temporarily behind him, but now he faces the challenges of surviving all alone in the wild. The Ishi wilderness is full of things that can easily injure or kill a per...
Season 1 Episode 4: Hope
In Episode 4: Will has begun to fall nicely into a pattern of sustaining himself from the abundance of nature, then once again he is jolted back to the reality of a post-viral world gone mad. When a military gunship shatters the tranquility of ...
Season 1 Episode 5: One and Done
Just as Hope has given Will a renewed purpose to survive, a misguided paramilitary force seeks to destroy anyone existing outside of their quarantine zones. In this episode Will and Hope are systematically hunted from ridgetop to creek bottom. ...
Season 1 Episode 6: Fast Learner
In addition to the many wilderness skills that Hope is learning and practicing, Will knows that self-defense skills may be the most important lessons. When he shows her the: eye gouge, groin kick, heel palm strike and elbow strike, she picks th...
Season 1 Episode 7: The Simoom of Change
Surviving in the wild can be like playing a board game – the board (the outdoors) remains the same but the dice (your skills) can change your odds of winning. Thriving in the wilderness is dependent on knowing the constants of the game board: e...
Season 1 Episode 8: Catching a Buzz
Fire has consumed almost all of the supplies and equipment, and has driven the game out of the canyon. In order to survive the present and provision for the future the best option is to head northwest, to the even more remote Mill Creek Cany...
Season 1 Episode 9: A Distant Rumble
Trekking deeper into the wilderness, Will and Hope settle into a serene location overlooking Mill Creek. Before long, their peace is shattered first by distant bombs and planes, then by the intrusion of two haggard refugees. Just passing throug...
Season 1 Episode 10: The VNC
Some of our most admirable human qualities, care and trust, can also be our downfall. How many times must Will learn that when you allow yourself to trust, you not only risk your own survival, you endanger those you love? In the savagery of the...
Episode 11: As a Hunter Hangs a Deer
For a species to endure, there must be a continuum of luck, skill and conditions conducive to survival. The weak, unskilled or unlucky are culled, the agile or fortunate are left to carry on. The story goes on, but the story-teller changes. His...
Episode 12: The Quick and the Dead
One man alone in the wilderness, no matter how skilled, is hard-pressed to survive the rigors of weather, predators, securing food and finding shelter. Add a second person to the scenario and the prospects for survival increase dramatically. Bu...
Episode 13: Buck Fever
Along with the human Ebola pandemic brought on by the planets degraded environment and altered climate, other pathogens wreaked havoc on plants, insects, fish, birds and mammals. After temporarily evading their human pursuers, Will and Hope are...
Episode 14: Infected
It’s easy to think of survival skills as a panacea for thriving in the wild. In reality they are but a stopgap. If highly skilled and extremely lucky they may allow one to live at a basic level for a time. Illness, injury, misfortune or careles...
Episode 15: Tom and the Zekes
Tom. Friend or foe? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. In the new paradigm of existence, enemies come in many new and evolving forms. But Zekes aren’t new…we just forgot about them.Enjoying the story? Kindly leave a brief review at htt...
Episode 16: A Change of Seasons
Sometimes, change is the only constant. Allies and enemies come and go. Mountains lead to valleys. Streams become lakes, water becomes ice. Winter is coming and along with it comes new challenges.Want to read the entire story? Paperback and...
Episode 17: Breaking the Eradication Code
Your only contact with the outside world is six distinct sets of tones, repeated ad nauseam over a marine radio. What could they mean?It’s a code! Decode it and you may live, fail and you might not.The clock is ticking...
Episode 18: The Best Defense…
Though the elements have challenged their wilderness skills, descending back into the domain of the hostiles will force them to call on Will’s combat skills and Hope’s marksmanship. The best defense is a good offense.
Episode 19: Needed Help Dying
The “fight or flight response” is an automatic physiological reaction to an event that is perceived as stressful or frightening. The perception of threat activates the sympathetic nervous system and triggers an acute stress response that prepar...
Episode 20: The Family
First it was just Will, alone. Hope gave purpose to Will’s existence. Providence led them to Laurel. The burned man meant to kill. Billy and Dusty betrayed them. Militia hunted them. Zekes wanted to eat them. Can they tr...
Episode21: War Pigeons
An archipelago of resistance camps. Communication is vital. The grid is history. Tech is dead. From Julius Caesar’s messages to Gaul, to WWII’s British Air Ministry, when the going got tough the War Pigeons got going.
Episode 22: River Pirates
With the PM searching closer and closer to the roundhouse, the family bugs-out sooner than expected. The river is their fastest route. Unfortunately, River Pirates act just like regular pirates, only on the river.
Episode 23: He DIED Defending Them.
Heroism is still heroism even if no one is left to acknowledge or remember it. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? We know in our hearts that the answer is yes.“You know the problem with ...
