Never Say Die: Stories of The Zombie Apocalypse by Stevie Kopas

Author:Stevie Kopas [Kopas, Stevie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Stevie Kopas
Published: 2016-05-15T03:00:00+00:00

Rosie

I’m always really scared when there’s a thunderstorm. Usually Mommy or Daddy will sing to me until I fall asleep or until the rain stops, but Daddy tried to hurt me, so Mommy killed him.

I have Mr. Quigley, my stuffed cat. I can cuddle him until the storm goes away because he’s scared too. I sing him the song Mommy usually sings to me. The only song Mommy sings anymore is one that sounds like crying, but I don’t think Mommy cries anymore. She didn’t even notice when the storm made me cry. She was too hungry.

I know she won’t hurt me, but she still scares me. I don’t know what happened to all the grown-ups, but I know that everyone is different now. Including Mommy.

Last week Daddy started coming home later and later from work until one day he didn’t come home at all. Mommy was angry and scared and started packing a suitcase. I got upset. I didn’t want to leave Daddy, but Mommy said we needed to. Daddy was a scientist, so I reminded her that he was really important and that’s why he didn’t come home, but she just ignored me and made me put some clothes in a bag.

I didn’t want to. There were lots of sirens outside and that seemed more fun. I took Mr. Quigley with me and we sneaked onto the porch to see what was going on. I saw Miss Jill from school across the street. She was dancing with some man. I thought it was funny at first, but then they fell down, and Miss Jill started to yell like she did that one time someone backed into her car at school. I hugged Mr. Quigley and started to go across the street, I like Miss Jill, she’s my favorite teacher. I just wanted to help her, she was screaming and the man was trying to kiss her on the neck and she didn’t like that.

Boy, did I get into trouble. Mommy picked me up and brought me back inside. She shut all the lights off and yelled at me for going outside. She was shaking me and I was scared. She kept peeking out the window and telling me to be quiet. Miss Jill stopped screaming and Mommy was trying not to let me see she was crying. She made me promise never to go outside ever again unless she was with me.

We stayed in the house for two more days and played the quiet game. I like that game because I always win and then get snacks from the shop down the road. I would always tickle Daddy and then he’d laugh and I’d win, but Mommy wasn’t ticklish and she said that I couldn’t have any snacks if either of us lost. Mommy didn’t know how to play the game right, so I played along because I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. The quiet game is really boring when everybody outside is making as much noise as they want.

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