A Spring of Sorrow by Arthur Mongelli

Author:Arthur Mongelli [Mongelli, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2018-07-12T04:00:00+00:00

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As the door clicked closed behind Yen, Tar lay back on his pillow and turned his attention outward, to the landscape outside the window of his hospital room. He stared blankly at the muddy, barren earth and into the dense pine forest that blocked most of his view. It took him a few moments to recognize that he was looking out to the northwest. Past the heavy foliage that blotted his vision would be the junkyard, and beyond that, route 125 heading north out of Donner.

From what Linda had told him, Yen and Nala had been doing a great job in his absence. Both he and Nala, strangers to the town, had stepped boldly and willingly into the role that he himself had never wanted, but grudgingly adopted. Good, he thought. Back to worrying about . . . his inner dialogue paused as he tried to think of what he had left to worry about. Nothing that mattered to him prior to the coming of the undead mattered to him anymore. His whole world shifted focus with the end of the old. The things he believed in and thought represented him, now seemed callous and unrealistic. People could no longer survive without others, he was sure of that. Even if they could, surely they would lose touch with that which makes them human.

He pushed the abstract thoughts from his head, recognizing there was no need to dwell on the inconsequential anymore. He thought briefly about his wife, and reassured himself that he was glad that she and their son, Karl, didn't live to see this hellish vision of Earth. He forced the thoughts from his head after a moment, when they turned dark, thinking of the past and all that was lost to him. His thoughts shifted briefly to brooding over the purpose of his own life at this point, crippled and nagged by pain.

“Time to get up, old boy. No use lying about being miserable,” he spoke aloud to himself.

He sighed heavily and sat up, swinging his legs off the side of the bed. It was clear from the two days since he had awoken that downtime would not be his friend any more than it had been previously. His thoughts always seemed to turn dark ever since Harriet passed those few years back. He hooked his remaining foot through the arm of a chair and drew it back towards him. As he started lowering himself into it he heard the door handle turning behind him. Expecting Linda he was taken aback when Betty walked in.

“Oh! You're up!” she chirped excitedly, a smile appearing on her lips.

“Yes Ma'am. Looking to get out of here as soon as I can make it to the door.”

“How is the pain?” she asked, her voice dripping with fake concern.

“Not the best, not the worst either. I'll manage.”

“Got a shot here if you want or need it.”

Tar hid his grimace of pain by looking out the window as he settled his weight heavily into the chair.

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