Bride of the Zombie God by Mike Leon

Author:Mike Leon [Leon, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2014-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

Sid steps out of 217 and grimaces at the situation developing in front of him. Ronald runs down the hallway his direction with Sheila tagging along behind him. A swarm of the limping dead follows behind them from the stairwell at the opposite end of the hall.

“Where’s the girl?” Sid asks.

“She made a run for it,” Ronald says. “Ran right into them.”

Sid grunts. He collected his pants and boots from his room, and a little something extra.

As Ronald dashes past, Sheila looks back at the mess of creatures tailing them.

“Oh Jesus,” she shrieks. “What’s wrong with those people?”

“Sheila, we went through this,” Ronald says. “They’re zombies. The reanimated corpses of the recently deceased.”

“They don’t look that recently deceased.”

She’s right about that. The condition and literal uniformity of the zombies is an odd detail that stuck out in Sid’s mind since he saw the first of them. He has little doubt the whole army was raised in the same place, with a few fresh standouts picked up along the way.

Sid pulls the pin from a standard M67 fragmentation grenade and tosses it underhand into midst of the collection of zombies working their way down the hallway toward him. He yawns as he waits for the grenade’s three-second fuse to tick away. It goes with a POP that reverberates down the old hallway, blackening the walls around it and quickly filling the corridor with a cloud of black dust. A wriggling arm lands near Sid’s feet. He advances into the smoke with his KA-BAR and butchers three creatures that remain standing. Another six were rendered incapable by the blast. Curiously, no more of them come through from the staircase doors.

Sid turns back down the hallway and walks toward the Herzfelds. They’re crawling on the ground coughing from the smoke.

“What happened, Ronald?” Sheila says. “There’s so much smoke.”

“I think it was a bomb, Sheila,” Ronald chokes. “How am I supposed to know?”

“The zombies are retreating,” Sid says.

“You mean they’re leaving?” Sheila says. “Did you hear that Ronald? The zombies are leaving.”

“Wonderful.”

“It doesn’t make sense… unless whoever is controlling them got what he wanted,” Sid says. “You said there are tools in the shed by the pool?”

“Yeah. All kinds of tools: shovels, clippers, chainsaws. Oh, you should get a chainsaw! In the movies they use chainsaws on the zombies!”

Sid has no use for such a thing. Chainsaws are terrible weapons. Aside from being uncomfortably heavy, they require prolonged and consistent pressure to saw deeper than a flesh wound and have a tendency to clog and jam when used on anything that isn’t wood.

“Are there any cemeteries nearby?” Sid asks.

Ronald shrugs. “We’re not from around here.”

“There’s a little Civil War cemetery up on the hill over that way,” Sheila says. “Esteban waters the plants up there. Very scenic.”

“Damn it, Sheila,” Ronald says.

Sid grunts.

“You two should leave now,” he tells the Herzfelds. “I have unfinished business with someone.”

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