Jamhuri, Njambi & Fighting Zombies by Ted Neill

Author:Ted Neill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tenebray Press
Published: 2019-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

Anastasia woke from another shallow sleep, disturbed by nightmares and the tears sliding sideways across her face. Her pillow was dark and damp where they had been landing. She was still alone in her room, but her phone was vibrating. She didn’t move to see who it was, instead letting it ring to voicemail.

The light had changed. It must have been afternoon. The lanes and streets of the neighborhood in a city under curfew were still eerie in their silence, although even in her sleep Anastasia had heard the gate rattle open, the coming and going of their vehicle, and the opening and shutting of doors, likely as her grandmother and aunts went back and forth, seeking medicines, pharmaceutical and traditional, to help her brother . . . delaying the inevitable.

If the Ministry of Health heard of her brother’s condition or the zombie boy—where had they put him, she wondered—they would all be quarantined.

The phone buzzed, again. She let it go to voicemail again.

Then it buzzed for a third series of rings. Anastasia finally leaned over from her pillows and looked at the screen to see who wanted to speak with her so badly as to call three times. A picture of her cousin in the Kaliande Region appeared on the screen, her face dark under a bright yellow head wrap, her face characterized by sharp eyes and striking cheekbones. Underneath the profile picture was her name, Njambi.

Anastasia didn’t want to talk to anyone really, but she would talk to her cousin. She clicked on the phone and her cousin’s face appeared, in real time, on the screen against the backdrop of her bedroom. Njambi’s hair was braided in medium-sized cornrows, with a few shiny wood beads and cowrie shells worked into the ends. She was wearing a purple T-shirt that read in three lines:

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