Blood of the Dead: A Zombie Novel by A. P. Fuchs

Author:A. P. Fuchs [Fuchs, A. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian, Horror, Suspense, Action & Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9781897217801
Publisher: Coscom Entertainment
Published: 2008-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

17: Empty Square

The bulk of Winnipeg Square had been covered and by the time August sat down on the steps leading up to the catwalk, which were near the food court, he was ready to pass out from fatigue.

The shops were empty, the only dead a few dismembered limbs. Where the rest of the people had gone, he could only guess into the creatures’ stomachs.

With each pass into the shops, the side rooms, the bathrooms and beneath stairwells, he kept a sharp ear out for whatever it was that had been making noise last night.

But Winnipeg Square had proved empty.

He had made sure the doors leading outside were secure every time he encountered some and all were boarded up save for a pair that opened up onto Fort Street via the Royal Bank building. Those he secured by simply locking the door and stacking desks and paper-filled boxes from the bank offices in front of them.

The next order of business would be to block the stairway where he now sat with whatever he could find and maybe line the top of the barricade with pots and pans from the food court so that, should something try and get through, the kitchenware'd tumble to the floor and raise a sound he could hear all the way down by the vault door.

He just needed to catch his breath first.

Boy, was he starving. He had put off scouring the food court for any canned goods on purpose until he verified he was alone down here. Now that he was fairly sure there was nobody around but him, his heart leapt in delight at the prospect of finally getting some grub. Maybe, just maybe, there'd be power in one of the kitchens and some coffee and he could boil himself a cup.

August got to work. It took awhile, but eventually a makeshift barricade was set up along the bottom of the non-running escalator and the flight of stairs that ran up alongside it. He dragged heavy tables from the restaurant next to the barricade and piled chairs on top of it. Then, as planned, put the pots and pans in place, some acting as a base, others half-on-half-off, so that any jostling of the chairs and tables would force them to fall.

"Not bad,” he said, hands on his hips as he surveyed his work. “Ain't Fort Knox but it ain't out in the open anymore either."

Stomach growling, he went to the food court and worked his way through the various eateries, seeing what he could find. All the perishable stuff was rotten, stinking and covered with so much thick green fuzz that he couldn't even look at it.

"How's that? Can look the dead in the eye but rotten tomatoes make you gag.” What a time to live.

Some of the places had freezers, many of which still had a few slabs of meat, stuff which had been left behind by previous ransackers for some unexplained reason. Didn't matter though. There was no power circulating down

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