Dead Heat: A Hollow Dead Novel by Young D.M

Author:Young, D.M. [Young, D.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2019-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Adam Keeling peeked out of the curtains that covered the front window. The heavy fog still obscured the view of everything beyond the front yard. Still, as far as he could tell, no one had responded to his emergency call. Even through the fog, he should have seen some hint of lights. He certainly would have heard the sirens, but the night outside the window was as still as ever.

He returned to the kitchen chair that he’d positioned near the door and dialed 911 again. It was busy. Not a good sign. The police should have gotten control of the hospital situation by now. If they were still that busy, something else must have happened. He wondered if he should wake the others, but then realized he had nothing concrete to tell them.

Adam thought about everything that had happened since yesterday morning, and wondered at just how quickly a person’s whole belief system could be turned upside down. Yesterday, he would have laughed at the very idea of flesh-eating zombies wandering the streets of Hollow Springs. He had always been a logical person. He believed in facts and statistics.

He understood the desire to believe in the afterlife, but he couldn’t convince himself that there was any such thing. Death was final. You lived; you died. The world continued spinning without you. Yet, here he was sitting in a stranger’s house, hoping that the dead would not find him.

He guessed, for him, it all came down to evidence. Granted, he’d seen no definitive proof that the homicidal creatures at the hospital were dead, but he was standing right beside the bed when Brody sat up. All the fancy medical equipment said he had no heartbeat. He wasn’t breathing. The nurses who checked his vitals and found nothing. Adam himself had seen no signs of life. Then, without warning, Brody sat up, grabbed the nurse, and tore her throat out.

That should have killed her, but, minutes later, she was running through the hospital attacking other people. Then there was the matter of the truck’s driver and passenger. Could they have survived that wreck? Maybe. Was it likely that they had? Nope. None of this was absolute proof, but it was damned close. Close enough for him, anyway.

From the hallway, Booger coughed and Adam snapped out of his thoughts. He watched as the old man stepped carefully over the dog that was stretched across the living room floor and made his way to the window. Booger pushed the curtains aside and stared out the window for a moment before grabbing a chair and pulling it up beside Adam’s.

“Anything happening out there?” Booger asked as he carefully dropped into the chair and groaned quietly.

Adam shook his head, “No, and that’s the thing. Nobody has even responded to the accident. It’s been totally quiet.”

Booger’s eyes narrowed. “You try calling ‘em again?”

“Yeah, it wouldn’t even go through. Just got a busy signal.”

Booger raised his eyebrows at this news. “Well, that’s not good. I wish this fog would let up so we could see more’n ten feet.

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