Fear of the Dead (Novella): Contagion by Woods Mark

Author:Woods, Mark [Woods, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2020-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

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That had been over a week ago.

Since then, the world had continued to fall apart.

The World’s governments had all mobilised their forces and were attempting to seize back control, to turn back the tide of the infected, but if one thing was quickly becoming self-evident, it was that the Dead were slowly winning the war.

Sammi and Kirsten lived in a two storey apartment building.

They lived upstairs in one flat whilst below, there lived another slighter older lady with two cats. On that first day, they’d gone downstairs to check on their neighbour, but there had been no answer when they’d knocked on her door.

Kirsten had pulled out the spare key the lady – Melissa, the girls thought her name was – had given them, so they could feed and look after her cats if she ever went away for the weekend to visit her parents, or wouldn’t be there for a couple of days as sometimes happened, and slipping the the key into the door, the two girls had let themselves in.

Kirsten was armed with a baseball bat, and Sammi was carrying a large chefs knife that was almost, but not quite, a machete.

They’d armed themselves just in case they encountered trouble.

They’d already seen plenty of people being attacked and bitten out on the street outside, and both girls knew from watching Zombie movies that once you got bitten, that was it.

Game over.

You became one of them.

Sammi and Kirsten weren’t about to take any chances.

“Hellooo…Melissa? Are you down here? It’s Sammi and Kirsten from upstairs, we’re just checking that you’re okay…” Kirsten had called out as they opened the front door and entered the flat.

There was no reply.

Sammi and Kirsten had checked every room, but fortunately the apartment was empty.

Apart from the two cats.

There was no sign of Melissa.

“Maybe she popped out?” Sammi suggested. “Popped to the shops or something?”

Kirsten nodded. “Maybe,” she said. “I hope she’s alright - it’s bloody chaos out there and I wouldn’t want to be out there with all those things wandering about attacking everything.”

“I’m sure she’s fine,” Sammi said, doing her best to try and reassure her friend. Their neighbour’s two cats curled around their legs, purring, obviously pleased to see them both after being left all alone. “I’m more concerned about her two cats right now. What are they going to do if she doesn’t come back?”

“We’re not taking them in,” Kirsten said, warning her friend now. “I’ve got allergies and besides, some of my stuff is expensive and cost me a lot of money. The last thing I want is cat fur all over my designer clothes.”

She opened up a tin of food and split it between both cats while Sammi changed their cat bowl and provided them with fresh water.

“You don’t have allergies,” Sammi told her as she did so.

“Yeah, well they’re still not coming back upstairs with us. If you’re worried about them being stuck inside, we can open a window for them till their owner gets back so they can come and go as they please,” Kirsten said.

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