Dead World (Book 2): Headed North by Mollohan Jacob

Author:Mollohan, Jacob [Mollohan, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Jacob Mollohan
Published: 2015-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

13

Hardin, Montana

Peter takes a sip from his beer. It’s still frosty even after a few hours, the only thing good about the cold weather. He sets the beer down on the cracked roof and leans back in the lawn chair. The sun is just beginning to set in the distance and it casts a warm orange glow over everything. This is the best he has felt in weeks.

He pulls the rifle to his shoulder and sights down the scope into the writhing mass of bodies. From his perch atop the office building adjacent to the wall he can see the whole mass of them moving around. The zombies nearest the wall are clawing at it without result, but the sheer press of bodies might be enough to bring it down eventually.

Fear should be running through him right now but he has been afraid for so long that something finally snapped. If this is how the world is going to end. People going crazy, attacking each other. Trying to eat each other. Then he is going out in style.

Terry sits nearby in his own lawn chair. He also has a rifle and a large case of bullets at his feet. He fires into the crowd and a zombie in the middle of the horde drops, the upper half of his head blown clean off.

“So what do you think about all this?” Terry asks, looking back up from his kill. Immediately the other zombies pile in. it seems like for everyone they kill there are a dozen to take its place. Like the mythic hydra this beast just keeps coming back stronger.

“At least we have plenty of bullets,” Peter says, aiming down the scope again. He spots a middle aged woman. It’s not his wife but in her undead state she bears a remarkable likeness. He sways the scope to the right. An older gentlemen with his glasses still on by some miracle chance. His cardigan is filthy with gore and blood, ropes of his entrails hanging out from a gaping hole in his abdomen.

Peter takes a shallow breath and on the exhale he blows a whole through the left eye glass sending greying brain matter out in an arc. Other zombies watch without concern. Enthusiasm isn’t their strong suit unless they can kill one of us, thinks Peter.

“It’s not like we can do anything about them right now,” Peter says, “I mean those things just keep on coming. I never even knew there were this many people in Hardin.”

“Yeah, you’re right. I mean where could they all be coming from?” Terry asks, scratching at his chin. He was never a logistics man. He always did what the commanding officer said when they said it. Much easier if you are not questioning orders. When they say jump you do just that.

“I really don’t know. But look at this. The only section of the wall not completely surrounded is the west side now. And they just keep showing up. It’s like every night there are more,” Peter says.

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