Loose Ends: A Zombie Novel by Wilburn Jay

Author:Wilburn, Jay [Wilburn, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Hazardous Press
Published: 2012-07-07T07:00:00+00:00

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I looked down at the dusty trail through the air from the coordinated zombie’s fall, but his body was out of sight.

Doc grabbed my shoulder roughly and pulled me off the ground and forward over the blocks down the center of the bridge. I started taking steps on my own to get him to let go. He did and I nearly froze again as I swooned from being set loose in the air. He didn’t reach for me again and I stayed near his hip.

The first zombie reached the end of the bridge a few feet behind us. He stepped out without breaking stride. His lack of fear filled me with more and I was motivated to move faster across the gaps. He made two bars before his foot went through the space between the second and third ties. He dropped right through slamming his crotch against the edge of the wood. I saw the remains of him there explode on impact as I turned back forward. He continued to pull himself forward as if nothing had happened.

We couldn’t afford the same injury. We took a step at a time. The bridge was steady, but I felt the world wobbling around me.

Doc tapped my shoulder and started pulling me toward the side over the rail on his side. I tried to pull back to the center. He waved his hand ahead and I saw it. There were three broken ties that had fallen through in the middle of the bridge. It was just open to empty space in the middle. The rails continued across of both sides of the opening. The supports along the sides and beneath the rails held the broken ends of the ties at sickening angles.

I was ready to head back into the zombies bobbling along the bridge behind us. The space would be an easy jump on flat ground. I could probably step across that distance. There was something different about being a couple hundred feet above the ground.

We started walking along the edge. The tie ends shifted from side to side under the rail. The main supports held, but it wasn’t easy to balance on the rail with zombies closing in behind us.

Through the gap I could see the distinct rough edging of the oak leaves on the branches just below the bridge. I wondered if it was possible to grab hold of them if we fell through the space. The trunk receded away from us down into the rough floor of the canyon. There was a sliver of a creek running through the white rocks. There was a tire looped over a jagged corner on one of the boulders near the water. What was left of a mattress was bent and wedged between two others near the far wall.

Bodies were scattered and broken near the canyon wall. A couple were still twisting and clawing between the rocks below us.

It looked like the river had been much higher in past seasons. There might be a

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