Last Stand of the Dead - 06 by Joseph Talluto

Author:Joseph Talluto [Talluto, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2012-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

I walked over to the hall and started down it. There was a lot of violence in this area. Zombie kids and parts of them were all over the place, some still moving. We found three of them that had been shot in the neck, their spines broken. They still blinked and snapped their teeth, but that ended when we reached them.

Further down the hall, the carnage got worse. There were kids with their heads blown apart, and others that didn’t have heads at all. These were piled on top of each other, and we had to be careful when we pulled them out of the way that they didn’t try and bite one of us.

I looked at Charlie and we both sighed. “Looks like a last stand, doesn’t it?” I said.

Charlie looked up sharply. “Don’t say that! It’s not over until we see it for ourselves.”

I looked at Charlie and his eyes were wider than normal. He was on the brink, and whatever we found at the end of this hallway, would be either relief or rage.

We passed a small desk and moved into the back area, which was a large meeting room. Chairs were all over the place, and there were more zombie dead back here. The path of the dead zombies led to a small stage at the back, and there were several up on the stage.

My brother was on the stage as well. He was seated on a chair, and I could tell he was dead. His head hung down and off to one side. A casual glance could cause someone to mistake him for sleeping, but the numerous wounds in his arms and legs would change that assessment. He had been bitten several times, and had lost a considerable amount of blood. Looking around, I could see that he had fought until the very end, and then denied the zombies their final victory by putting his last bullet in his own head.

I knelt down by my brother. “Oh, Mike. I’m so sorry.” I took his guns and tucked them in my belt, both his beloved Beretta 92 and his Smith 460. That gun caused so much devastation, but couldn’t be reloaded fast enough to stop them all. I couldn’t do anything for a long time but sit by my brother and let the tears flow. We’d been through so much, and he had survived so much. It wasn’t fair that he went out like this, not fair at all. He’d managed to get his family out of the worst of the Upheaval, survive a trip downriver, keep them alive until I could find him, then start to rebuild his life with his family.

Now he was dead. I had never felt such a deep loss, not since I lost Ellie. I had no hope of finding my sons now. I felt they were gone too, and that loss was almost too much.

“I’m so sorry,” I said again. “I shouldn’t have left you. You weren’t ready. I’m so sorry.

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