Beyond Dead | Book 1 | The Cough by Frost Christopher

Author:Frost, Christopher [Frost, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2021-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

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EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM: THIS IS NOT A TEST… ALL RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED TO STAY IN THEIR HOMES… THIS IS NOT A TEST… FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNDER QUARANTAINE… HILLSBORO…ROCKINGHAM…CHESHIRE…SULLIVAN… MERRIMACK… THIS IS NOT A TEST… ALL RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED TO STAY IN THEIR HOMES… THIS IS NOT A TEST…

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Up until two days ago Bob would have spent his early morning as a janitor at the Adult Learning Center. A job he had enjoyed for the better part of eighteen years as he went into the back forty. Now there was no job. Not for him.

Bob sat on the rooftop of his apartment building looking down at the city streets that should have been alive like an ant hill not tumbling like a ghost town. Overhead, a military helicopter, one of those Blackhawks he thought they were called, would buzz by every once in a while. He sat in a lawn chair with a cigar in his mouth and a bottle of Grey Goose he had pillaged out of a deserted neighbor’s residence.

Fifteen minutes ago he had been sober for more than twenty-seven years. Still took the time to go to a meeting once a week and always the early mass on Sunday morning. If he thought there was a heaven to follow after life he might have thought for a second about taking those chugs from the bottle again, but all he had to do was look down at the street toward all the dead that just wouldn’t die. He knew there was no afterlife after all. The good book had gotten that one wrong.

So, he took another tug of the bottle and set it down on his knee where the sun reflected through the half empty glass. No longer any such thing as ‘glass half full’, it was always going to be half empty from these days out.

Next to the foot of the lawn chair Bob sat in was an old AM/FM radio powered by good ole’ Duracell batteries. Not those fancy new ones that needed to be plugged in and charged. He figured there were a lot of people stuck in the quarantine zone with nothing but those new age iPods and cell phones, and satellite radios, all running on power and the power was out. The lights had flickered on and off for most of the night before the power cut and the city went dark. The gennies over at the hospital had kicked in and hummed out like a swarm of bees in the quiet of the city, only no one could use the hospital, it was overrun with the dead. A few police cars would weave through the deserted streets from time to time, maybe knocking out a few dead before careening off to who knew where. He hadn’t seen a fire truck, even though when the night came you could see fires brewing throughout the city like candle flames.

Before the power had flickered its last time and the city had gone dark, Bob had frantically been trying to call his daughter in North Carolina where Virginia was a nurse.

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