Life of the Dead (Book 2): Road of the Damned by Urban Tony

Author:Urban, Tony [Urban, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Packanack Publishing
Published: 2017-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

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Juli was doing 50 miles per hour when Jeremy turned. He’d been silent as night turned to morning and Helen had even taken a break from worrying about him to fall asleep. Juli saw the old woman’s head careened back against the seat and her mouth hanging agape as deep, raspy snores rumbled from her throat. Juli smiled a little, remembering how Mark used to snore when he slept, but the smile faded when that memory was swiftly replaced with the one of killing him.

They’d cleared the city some time ago but Juli could still see hints of smoke in the sky behind her as she drove. It was a nice enough day otherwise. The weather was warm and spring-like. If she hadn’t been running for her life, she might be outside planting petunias and impatiens, digging her hands through the soft potting soil and listening to the chickadees sing.

The realization that she’d probably never do any of those things again made the beautiful, blue sky seem pointless. What had Helen said? "The end of days"? Maybe she was right. Maybe the world wasn’t going to end in an ice age or fireballs from the sky after all. Maybe this was it. She’d never been a philosopher, and she had little time to ponder the end of the world because Helen’s snores were replaced with screams.

Juli checked the rearview mirror and saw Jeremy gnawing away at his grandmother’s bony shoulder.

“Stop it, Jeremy! Stop!” Helen flailed with her stick thin arms, pounding her fists into the boy, but he wouldn’t stop eating.

“Get off her!” Julie screamed as she slammed on the brakes. The duo in the back vaulted forward, crashing into the front seats. That broke them apart and Helen scrambled across the seat and away from the boy. His mouth was stained with his grandmother’s blood and he struggled to climb free from the footwell. Juli realized she had to stop that and jumped out of the car.

“Stay away from him, Helen!” Juli threw open the rear passenger side door and grabbed the boy by his hair.

Jeremy snarled and swung at her but Juli refused to let go as she dragged him out of the vehicle. Still holding two fistfuls of hair, she slammed his face against the ground once, then a second time. The boy’s movements slowed but didn’t stop. Juli smashed his face against the roadway a third time and felt a crunch. He went limp.

Juli knelt over his lifeless body, catching her breath. She realized she was still holding onto him and quickly let go. A few wiry, black hairs remained stuck to her sweaty hands. I just killed him, she thought. I killed this boy right in front of his grandmother. She wiped her hands on her nightgown to free herself of his hair. As she was doing so, ninety pounds of force landed on her back and she crumpled forward against Jeremy’s body.

Helen was atop her. The newly undead woman felt like fire on Juli’s back.

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