Desolation: A Zombie Novel by Bryan James

Author:Bryan James
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2016-03-09T07:00:00+00:00

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The walkway hit the ground in an explosion of bodies and dust, plunging the chaotic floor of the warehouse into an even thicker melee of violence.

As she descended, Kate pulled her legs and arms into her body, and as she hit the ground, she sensed the impact and rolled forward, staying in motion and flying toward where Annie had slipped off the vat.

The impact jarred her to her core, and she tasted blood in her mouth where she had gashed her lip with her own teeth. Her leg was bleeding as well—a cut from the jagged torn metal of the walkway, which had landed crookedly and bent into sharp angles among a dozen creatures, trapping several beneath its weight. Annie lay curled in the fetal position next to the sidewall of the vat, and several zombies were close enough to touch her. Kate barreled forward, putting a shoulder to each and grasping Annie’s arm with her left hand, yanking her to her feet.

Circling around quickly, she placed the child’s back to the vat, and faced her enemies, the eight foot length of thick metal chain in her right hand with her left pulling the machete from its sheath.

“Enough dicking around you rotten bitches. Come get me,” she muttered, before the chain came to life.

The assembled creatures roared in hunger and surged forward.

Huddled against Kate’s back, Annie screamed.

Behind the creatures, the fifty cal opened up again, accompanied by screams from the gunner atop the humvee. But the powerful weapon could only open a gulf between the fifteen creatures closest to Kate and the ranks of zombies waiting behind. It couldn’t march its huge rounds closer to Kate for risk of hitting her.

That was okay. Kate was doing fine on her own.

The thick chain swept forward in her powerful arms, arcing twice around her head before lashing into the first rank of zombies that pressed in. The solid metal crushed heads and flung frail and rotten torsos to the side. Disoriented, the battered creatures stood and regrouped, surging forward again.

Again, the chain circled her head and swept into the zombies, taking flesh and bone from their mangled corpses and spraying blood across the warehouse. The radius of nearly six feet was an arc of death in the arms of a desperate and protective mother. No zombie could approach. None would survive.

Her eyes were steel and her face an unforgiving stone. Above the battered corpses she had just felled, she moved forward relentlessly, seeking more death and more retribution. Her arms burned with the exertion, her blood pulsing in her temples, urging her forward.

The scream of the girl behind her brought her up short, and she turned away from the crowd that surged to pass the covering fire from the humvee. In one fell swoop, she scooped up the small child and bounded the fifteen feet to the bumper of the armored truck, sheltering in the swath of destruction laid down by the screaming fifty cal. Behind the humvee, the Rhino waited, idling beneath the popping semi-automatic fire of the soldiers on top.

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