Badass Zombie Road Trip by Tonia Brown

Author:Tonia Brown [Brown, Tonia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Action & Adventure, General, Lang:en
Published: 2012-05-28T21:07:57+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Hwy 50/I-70, Utah

139 hours: 29 minutes: 05 seconds remaining

Contrary to Dale’s worry, Utah wasn’t filled to the brim with prim and proper Mormons. Jonah had no idea of the religious affiliation of any of the people with whom they had come in contact, when they came into contact with people at all. The place was sparsely populated, even more so than Nevada, and the folks they ran into along the way seemed as easygoing as their surroundings. As for the drive itself, the highway was much of the same: brush and barrens, boring and blah. But the company! Well, that had brightened up considerably.

Candy was a delight as a travel partner. For starters, unlike Dale, she knew how to read maps, though she questioned the wisdom of relying on them.

“Isn’t that a mount for a GPS?” she asked, pointing to the empty carriage on the dashboard.

“Yes,” Jonah said. “But we decided to go au naturel this trip.”

“Why?”

“Because maps are fun?”

Candy lowered the travel guide to the floorboard. “Seems silly to me, I guess. I mean, why use a book when you got the Internet and all?”

“Yeah,” Dale agreed. “It does seem silly. Doesn’t it?”

Jonah sighed and scored one for Dale.

Her opinions about maps aside, it turned out that Candy did indeed like any kind of music, pleased as she was by both Dale’s hardcore rock and Jonah’s lighthearted folk tunes, singing both at full volume when she knew the song. Even though her voice left a little to be desired, Jonah was entranced by her singing. He had never met a woman who knew all the words to both Scarborough Fair and Feed My Frankenstein. She even seemed to warm up to their limited selection of demo songs and the brief pieces that Dale played for her before he realized how hard it was to play the guitar while Jonah deliberately drove like shit.

When the music wasn’t at full blast, she talked. A lot. At first, Jonah worried that she was too chatty, but in the natural pauses of her conversation, either Jonah or Dale would find themselves prompting her for more. She was free with her life story, up to the more recent years, at which point she sketched only a vague image of the events that drew her all the way to Nevada from the Deep South. When the conversation rolled around to her reasons for leaving, she became reserved, electing not to go into detail about her father’s so-called illness or her need for a speedy return.

With a fresh face to tell his stale tales, Dale was in his element, spending hour after hour one-upping Candy’s stories with yarns of his own. Jonah put the kibosh on a few of the brasher tales, trying to curb the zombie’s naturally crude tendencies and spare Candy’s feminine sensibilities. (Though, based on what she had shared already, she certainly could take anything Dale could dish out.)

Dale insisted on stopping every few hours so he could stretch his stiffening muscles.

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