Before The Outbreak: Short Stories of the Apocalypse in the Z-Strain Universe by Morris SJ

Author:Morris, SJ [Morris, SJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Forever Morris Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-11-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

The rest of the morning went as expected, thankfully. I did find myself thinking of my altercation with Jacob more often than I care to admit, but something about the interaction didn't sit right with me.

Was I really becoming that person? Do I really need to focus on work and my routine more than I need to actually be human and have social interactions with others? Had I become the corporate robot, my generation was continuously complaining about? I did check all the boxes. I worked in a cubicle, one could see my job as more of an obligation than something I truly enjoyed, I guess I was more of a number than a person to BNK since even my boss called me Jennifer more often than he called me Jessica. What kind of boss doesn't learn the names of their subordinates? He was a newer supervisor, but come on. He only had fifteen people to manage, and I've been working here for three years.

My self-contemplation was interrupted by a loud, blood-curdling scream. I stood up to see over my cubicle wall as a sea of bodies joined in the same reaction I had to the shouting. I couldn't tell precisely where the commotion was coming from, but it looked like there was a splash of red paint on Tom's frosted glass office wall that wasn't there before.

I watched as Norma, the should have retired five years go assistant to Tom, walked over to his office door. I could tell it was Norma from the bobbing of fluffy white hair through the ocean of other workers looking on. You could have heard a pin drop throughout the whole floor. It didn't feel like anyone was even breathing until Norma softly knocked on the thick glass door. "Mr. Cranton, is everything..."

Smash! There was a booming crash as Mr. Cranton's body slammed against the frosted glass wall of his office. Norma jumped back with a high pitched scream as she joined the people in the first row cubicles who sprang up from of their spots and bolted toward the elevators. I don't know what they saw, but whatever it was, was frightening enough to have them ready to leave the office without their belongings. I watched them run and begin banging on the elevators yelling for them to open.

I looked around at my coworkers not wholly understanding what was going on when another body joined Tom at his office wall, thumping and moaning incoherently. The new body landed more so on the door than the glass wall itself, so the weight of its body slowly pushed the door outwards into the open workspace shared by everyone unlucky enough to not have their own office. A mangled, bloody arm appeared through the door followed by a face so severely damaged I could only tell it was Janice from accounting by the hideous oversized blue fashion necklace she always wore.

Janice's mouth was covered in black and bright red gore. She moaned and thrashed about while fully exiting the doorway.

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