Geraint Wyn: Zombie Killer (Year of the Zombie Book 5) by Gary Slaymaker

Author:Gary Slaymaker [Slaymaker, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Infected Books
Published: 2016-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

They drove for the next half hour in silence. All four had been bewildered and bothered by their run-in with the old Stench at the pub. The silence was finally broken by Neil. ‘Do you think there are many more like that out there?’

‘More like Leighton, you mean?’ asked Gez. ‘Dunno. Every other Stench I’ve seen or heard about just wants to eat you.’

Billy shifted gear. ‘That was new to me too. I’ve never seen the like. At least with the rest of them you know they’re after one thing and so it’s easy to deal with it. But seeing old Leighton just sitting there… quiet and peaceful. That was scarier, somehow.’

‘Well, do you think they’re starting to calm down at last? Perhaps they’ve had enough to eat by now.’

Bethan smiled. ‘I think Leighton was the exception rather than the rule, Neil.’

Gez joined in. ‘If the Stenches had stopped attacking people, I’m sure we’d have been told by now. I’m with Beth. I reckon that old guy was a one off.’

Neil mulled over the last few minutes’ conversation. ‘So, you know if a vegetarian dies? Do you think they come back wanting to eat us? Or are they just as happy nibbling on a carrot?’

Bethan raised an eyebrow. ‘And he’s back.’

Neil gave her a puzzled look.

Bethan patted him patronisingly on the shoulder, ‘I was starting to worry about you, asking all these sensible questions. Now, that last one was more like the Neil I’ve come to know, and find constantly annoying.’

They continued their journey in silence.

*

Gwyn Callaghan, Bethan’s father, was the owner of Hafod Isaf farm on the outskirts of the village of Peniel. A tall, wiry man in his mid-forties, with salt and pepper coloured hair, Gwyn had headed home to West Wales following his divorce from Beth’s mother. It was a chance for him to start over, while also helping out on the family smallholding.

For a number of years, Gwyn and his father worked side by side, tending to the daily chores on the farm, while also building up the perimeter defences in order to keep out unwelcome, rotting visitors. But then Gwyn’s father died of heart failure and the son decided to go it alone, rather than sell up and move on. The last couple of years had been hard on him, body and soul, but he threw himself into his work and turned a smallholding that was just scraping by into a very successful little farm.

The milk yields were up, he was making a decent enough profit from the cattle he raised for meat, and he even had a farm shop, which sold home grown fruit and vegetables to an ever expanding market. And even though he missed his daughter, the fact that they were able to have Skype conversations on a regular basis meant that he could at least keep in touch with the one person who meant more to him than any other.

Gwyn Callaghan, the farmer, was doing very well for himself. But it was the sheep that were causing him problems… those evil bloody sheep.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.