Dead City by Joe Mckinney

Author:Joe Mckinney [McKinney, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Horror, Zombies
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2006-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

As we drove away, Marcus reloaded his pistol and his two extra magazines. He was fast with it, too. Shooting came naturally for him.

While we drove, he told me about his first encounters with the zombies. “I shot the couple that used to live downstairs from me,” he said. “Remember them? The woman had that nasty thing on her nose?”

“I remember.”

“Yeah, well, I heard her screaming. I was sitting there, watching all that crazy shit on the news, and I hear her screaming bloody murder. So I go down there, and there’s the husband, eating her. I shot him. I shot her too, just in case. After that I dragged them out to the dumpster. And you’re not going to believe this. I was headed back to my truck after dumping the bodies and I hear all this screaming coming from the pool. It was like everybody in the whole damn complex didn’t know what else to do besides scream. I went down there and saw this old woman standing next to the pool and a zombie floating facedown in the water with a cloud of blood all around him. She wanted me to jump him and pull him out, and I was like, ‘Lady, after what I’ve just seen, there’s no way in hell I’m gonna give that guy mouth-to-mouth. He’d probably try to bite my tongue off.’”

“I don’t think you’re supposed to use your tongue when you do mouth-to-mouth,” I said.

“Then you ain’t doing it right, brother. But, seriously, somebody ought to burn up all those bodies. Just you watch. In two days, this whole city’s gonna smell like I don’t know what. It’ll be bad, though.”

I hadn’t thought of that—but then, I had other things on my mind last time I was home.

“You know, you and April were probably one of the last people to have a cell phone conversation tonight. Right before I turned off the TV, I heard the news saying they’d lost all communication with their people in the field. No cell phone, no radios, no nothing.”

“Really?”

“That’s what I heard.” He suddenly got very excited and waved his hand at some zombies walking across a nearby yard. “Hey. Slow up. Over there. That’s the asshole who complained on me last month. Slow up and let me see if I can pop him.”

“Have you lost your mind, Marcus?”

“I don’t think so,” he said, aping my seriousness. “Come on, pull over. It’ll only take me a second. I’ll fucking teach that guy about complaining on me.”

I kept on driving.

“Hey, wait a minute.” Marcus watched the guy fall behind, his damaged legs unable to keep up with the car. “Damn it, Eddie. When will I ever get a chance like this again. Come on, he’s getting away.”

“No.”

“Goddamn it, Eddie. Doesn’t April let you take your sense of humor to work any more?”

I didn’t answer him. That was the second time he had mentioned April so casually, like there was absolutely nothing wrong, and it was pissing me off.

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