Cities of the Dead: Stories From The Zombie Apocalypse by Young William

Author:Young, William [Young, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2012-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

Those were a good memories.

The War on Horror

Atlanta, Georgia - Day 274

Chief Petty Officer Daryl “Sandman” Grecich floated down beneath his parachute, his eyes scanning the ground of the Druid Hills Golf Club below him. He'd seen the video footage, read the intelligence reports, knew everything there was to know about what to expect when he and his team hit the ground, but still didn't believe it. On the other hand, he was glad to not still be in Afghanistan, where it had suddenly seemed that the war on terror had lost its meaning. The jihadis he had been killing had given up fighting months earlier, retreating into their compounds and caves shortly after the United States closed its borders to everything.

It had taken Grecich and most everyone else in the military in Afghanistan by surprise when the US government announced it was closing its borders, and that included to them, too. Higher command had assured the troops there was plenty of food, ammunition and other supplies to stay without worry for many months, but Grecich figured that’s exactly what the higher-ups would say. Thousands of miles from home, surrounded by Islamist radicals, no reinforcements and no recall to home port. Grecich figured he and his men were as good as dead. But then the local jihadis gave up on fighting them, retreating to their caves or melting into the civilian population, ending their guerrilla warfare. Another SEAL team captured a jihadi a few weeks later and it turned out the Islamists thought Allah was finally punishing the West for its sins, so they were content to wait it out and see what God's Plague made of the infidels.

The men in Fire Base Coldstream did nothing for months. Patrolling yielded no actionable intelligence, and there was precious little information filtered down from above. According to the news, a highly infectious contagion was spreading the globe through every means available and turning people into something that resembled zombies, although most news reports simply called them “the infected.” Grecich’s commander figured they were probably in as good spot as any to wait it out, seeing as Afghanistan was still stuck in pre-history and infected people weren’t likely to travel there.

But after many weeks of inactivity, a helicopter had arrived from the USS Dwight D Eisenhower with orders for all of the SEALs on base to board it for evacuation. Once aboard ship, they had been briefed in full about what was going on in America and across the world. Almost every major population center in the world had been hit with the contagion, and much of the United States’ military had been rendered combat ineffective, the exception being most of the Navy’s ships that had been at sea at the start of the pandemic. The president was apparently on board the USS Ronald Reagan in the waters off the coast of Maryland.

“Well, D, it seems like the war on terror has been supplanted by the war on horror,” said teammate Petty Officer

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