Dead in L.a. by Stephen Knight

Author:Stephen Knight [Knight, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Apocalyptic
ISBN: 9781546668251
Google: Lh7oswEACAAJ
Amazon: B072BRPKK2
Barnesnoble: B072BRPKK2
Goodreads: 35130625
Published: 2017-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

WALLACE AND DARIEN

Wallace and Darien rode on down Sepulveda in the big Ford, weaving their way around stalled traffic and large zombie herds. At times, Wallace would have to nurse the big rig up onto the sidewalks to avoid the twisted wreckage of cars and trucks that had been involved in horrible collisions. More than once, Wallace saw the remains of human beings in several vehicles, people who had likely been pinned in the wreckage when the zombies came at them, devouring them right in their seats. With no chance of escape, they’d become nothing more than selections in a buffet line.

Meals on wheels, he thought.

Wallace tried to avoid striking any more zombies than he had to. The Super Duty truck was already pulling to the right, which told him its alignment had been dinged from previous encounters with the dead. He didn’t want to risk damaging it any further. Being trapped without a ride in Los Angeles was a death sentence before the zombie apocalypse had rolled around, and things hadn’t improved since the bottom dropped out. Having no wheels in the City of Angels was now something of greater impact than a merely awkward social disadvantage.

“You know, this is kind of a nice truck,” Darien said after a long moment. “Though I don’t really like the color.”

Wallace shook his head. “Yeah, okay.” As they drove, Wallace kept a sharp eye out. All he saw were zombies, or corpses that had been returned to death’s embrace. The last living people they’d seen had been that crazy crew that was operating out of the store, several hours ago. Since then, it was just them and the dead.

“I don’t understand. Where is everyone?” he asked.

Darien shrugged. “I don’t know. It’s a good question. I mean, I guess people have been evacuating over the past few days, but other than that… I don’t know.”

Wallace grunted. Thousands had fled, of course, in various directions. Many more, he suspected, had simply met horrible deaths before they could escape. Like some terrifying pack animals, Wallace presumed zombies tended to operate in horrendous hordes. From the looks of things, they could mass in numbers that were absolutely astounding, wherein hundreds and even thousands of these creatures had stormed entire city blocks and ravaged the inhabitants in a remarkably short time. The sheer numbers brought traffic to a standstill in many places. People were attacked right in their cars by fearless, unfeeling zombies that broke through windows with their hands and heads and fed on the living. High-rise offices and apartments were stormed by masses of these monsters. People were trapped inside, as if by fire, fighting to try and stop them or else barricading themselves inside as these swarms swept into their buildings, finding any and all living persons in every nook and cranny. Wallace noticed several LAPD cruisers in one intersection, parked as if the officers had tried to make a stand. Hundreds of cartridges gleamed in the sunlight. Scraps of uniforms lay scattered across the blood-streaked street.

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