Fear of the Dead (Book 1): Fear of the Dead by Woods Mark

Author:Woods, Mark [Woods, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Black Hart Press
Published: 2018-12-04T05:00:00+00:00

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The day Arthur’s world ended started much like any other.

Whilst Mary and Rosie sat in the front room eating breakfast - cereal with powdered milk, dry toast, and two glasses of powdered orange Juice; nothing for Arthur, he didn’t do breakfast, the same way he didn’t do people - Arthur retired to his Study. There, amongst the piles of his unsorted Agricultural periodicals and magazines - those sorted long having been boxed up and now residing in the attic - Arthur fired up his old computer, accessed the Internet and started scanning through the various News and Social Networking sites still working, looking for any signs of life.

A diesel powered generator, stored in the basement, ensured they still had electricity long after it should have gone off by rights, but even so, Arthur made sure to use its power sparingly. This meant no lights that might attract unwanted attention, no music even if it did help distract them and get them through the day, and absolutely NO television. Not that there was anything on the television to watch now anyway, save for a few programmes still playing in an endless, eternal loop. It had been a long, long time now since the last live broadcast had been shown, and by now automated systems had cut in to attempt to fill the void and probably would continue to do so until someone turned them off or the power eventually went off for good everywhere instead of just out here n the sticks.

How the automated programmes were still going, months after Z-day had long since been and gone, Arthur didn’t know.

The same as the Internet.

He didn’t know how that was still going either, but then, Arthur never had ever really been all that technically minded, even before the Zombie apocalypse had happened.

Across the whole of the Internet, Arthur found nothing.

He hadn’t gotten any hits on any of the Websites or social media sites he frequented in over three months, but still he kept trying. Everywhere had all gone quiet.

Silent.

The world was slowly dying, one piece at a time, with no-one left to watch and soon, Arthur thought, he and his family here could well end up being amongst the last humans left alive, if they weren’t already.

Arthur hadn’t told his wife, Mary, he was still checking the computer every day.

She thought the Internet was gone and he didn’t want to tell her the truth because he had seen the look on her face when the television had begun repeating the same programmes over and over and over again; flashing up the same old message about staying in your home and locking all your doors between commercials.

The last thing Arthur wanted was to give her false hope and so, as far as Mary was concerned, the only reason Arthur still came in here every morning was to continue to sort through all his magazines.

What she didn’t know, after all, couldn’t hurt her…

After switching off and powering down the computer, Arthur took his shotgun

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