Eden 02 - Crusade by Tony Monchinski

Author:Tony Monchinski
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: apocalyptic, Murder, eden, Action & Adventure, End of the World, Horror, permuted press, postapocalyptic, Fiction, Science Fiction, General, zombies, living dead, walking dead, tony monchinski, apocalypse, Horror Tales
ISBN: 9781934861332
Publisher: Permuted Press
Published: 2010-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

Lauren stumbled through the night, trying not to use the flashlight, using it more often than she wanted to. She worried about draining the batteries and she feared drawing the attention of anything out here in the dark. From her experience, most zombies were none too delicate and made a good deal of noise, but the ones they called brains… Brains had set the trap back on the highway—the trap they’d walked right into.

As she walked she listened to the nighttime and thought about Eva and Sonya and Sonya’s kids and a little boy who had gotten separated from their group, who might be wandering in the night just now like she was. She thought of Maurice and wondered what she would do when she got back to the highway, if she could even find him.

She came out onto the road in the middle of the night. There was no visible moon. Around her came the sounds of nocturnal things, things that might have scared her once, but she knew there were other things out here in the dark, things worthy of fear.

She considered the wall of cars stranded on the road, stretching out in both directions. She wondered where she had emerged. Had they left the road farther to her right or to her left? She listened to the night but it gave her no clues. After a few minutes she decided any action was better than none, so she turned to her right and walked, sticking to what pavement was left, overgrown as it was with grass and weeds, the clear demarcation of the road and its shoulder eroding.

She had gone far enough to wonder if she had gone too far when she heard them. Faint at first, but no mistaking the source of the clamor. Zombies. She proceeded with more caution, aware of her surroundings. The cars cast dark, ominous shadows. Lauren wondered if a brain might be lurking between them, waiting for someone like her to pass by in the night.

Silly. She banished the thought from her mind. Even the smartest of the undead found whatever rudimentary intelligence they still possessed trumped by their hunger. If Maurice were still alive, all the zombies in the area would be where he was.

It took her another ten minutes of walking, drawing closer to their calls and chortles, to confirm her suspicion. She became aware of movement ahead so she stopped where she was and stared off into the gloom. She could not discern details but she could see a bit. A mass of them circled a vehicle that was higher up off the ground and bulkier than others surrounding it. Eva had said a dump truck or something.

Lauren climbed on top of a station wagon as quietly as she could. She stood on it and looked around. She had a better view of the undead throng ahead. To her left she could just make out a sole shape atop the bulkier vehicle. That had to be the tow truck or whatever Eva had said she’d last seen Maurice atop of.

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