Cryoskip's Footprints — Jason Anderson

Derek Mezer and Butch Clements were victims of a kidnapping. Their captors didn't want a ransom; they wanted test subjects for cryogenic experiments.

When Derek learns of a site that could help them identify the perpetrators, Butch is eager to join him. However, in a world where scavenging is a means of survival, there are others willing to fight, and kill, for what the ruins contain.

Atomic Wasteland Tales are set in the ruins of civilization, decades after a devastating global nuclear war. Life is harsh, death is cheap, and hope is a forgotten dream for all but a fortunate few.

Cryoskip's Footprints is a short story/novelette (9678 words, about 33 novel pages). Edited by Lynn O'Dell (Red Adept Publishing).