Autumn 1: Autumn by David Moody

Author:David Moody
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror, Zombies
ISBN: 9780312569983
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 1

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AUTUMN Published by INFECTED BOOKSwww.infectedbooks.co.uk This edition published 2005Copyright David Moody 2002 All rights reservedThis book is a work of fiction. The characters and situationsin this story are imaginary. No resemblance is intended betweenthese characters and any real persons, either living or dead. Condition of SaleThis book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, byway of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwisecirculated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form orbinding or cover other than that in which it is published andwithout a similar condition including this condition beingimposed on the subsequent purchaser. A catalogue record for the paperback edition ofthis book is available from the British Library Paperback ISBN 0-9550051-0-8 2-5-0805-2

Prologue Billions died in less than twenty-four hours. William Price was one of the first. Price had been out of bed for less than ten minutes when it began. He had been standing in the kitchen when he’d felt the first pains. By the time he’d reached his wife in the living room he was almost dead. The virus caused the lining of his throat to dry and then to swell at a remarkable rate. Less than forty seconds after initial infection the swelling had blocked his windpipe. As he fought for air the swellings began to split and bleed. He began to choke on the blood running down the inside of his trachea. Price’s wife tried to help him, but all she could do was catch him when he fell to the ground. For a fraction of a second she was aware of his body beginning to spasm but by that point she had also been infected. By that point the volume of oxygen reaching her lungs had reduced to less than ten per cent of her normal oxygen requirement. Less than four minutes after Price’s initial infection he was dead. Thirty seconds later and his wife was dead too. A further minute and the entire street was silent.

1Carl Henshawe I was almost home by the time I knew that it had happened. It was still early - about half-eight I think - and I’d been out of the house since just after four. Looking back I was glad I hadn’t been home. It was bad enough seeing Sarah and Gemma lying there after it had happened to them. Christ, I wouldn’t have coped seeing it get them both. I just couldn’t have stood seeing them both suffer like that. I couldn’t have done anything for either of them. It hurts too much to even think about it. Better that they were gone and it was over by the time I got home. I’d been out on a maintenance call at Carter and Jameson’s factory five miles north of Billhampton. I usually ended up going there once or twice a month, and usually in the middle of the night.

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