Pandora: A Novel of the Zombie Apocalypse by McCrohan Richard

Author:McCrohan, Richard [McCrohan, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-11-04T05:00:00+00:00

13

After the newly acquired supplies were inventoried and put away, everyone had dinner. The new food wasn’t plentiful, but the items from Edith’s fridge helped this meal greatly. When dinner was over and cleanup was done, everyone settled down with the curtains drawn tightly and the lights turned down low.

Jack was sitting in an easy chair in the parlor area, sipping the last of his favorite scotch. Naomi walked over and, after pulling up an ottoman, sat next to him.

“Great meal,” said Jack, saluting her with his glass. “Kudos to the chef.”

Naomi smiled and leaned toward him. “So,” she started softly, “how was it out there? Scary?”

Jack took a sip, eyeing her over the rim. “Other than the fact that I almost shit my pants, no, not bad.”

She snorted out a suppressed laugh and said, “Seriously. It’s bad out there now, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” he said softly. “It’s bad.”

“What are we going to?”

Jack took another sip and paused thoughtfully. “What I think, my dear Nurse Washington, is that we’re going to have to leave here at some point.”

She looked at him, the fear now showing on her face.

“It’s only a matter of time before something happens or someone fucks up and these zombie bastards find out we’re here. When that happens, we’re going to have to run out the back and keep on running. We’ll be split up, with no supplies, no transportation, and just the shirts on our backs. Even if we grab all the guns when we flee, we’ll inevitably be picked off one by one till we’re all gone.” He stared into her brown eyes. “We can’t stay here.”

“I thought that too,” she said, rising. With a nod she walked away.

Jack had just finished his scotch when his cell phone rang. He looked at the caller ID then excitedly answered, “Tommy!”

“Hey, bro” came the response.

“Are you in Florida?”

“Yes,” Tommy said. “We got here not long after you and I last spoke. My company was assigned Hurlburt Field, and from there we headed to Pensacola. We were on the peninsula, crossing the Pensacola Bay Bridge, when we ran smack into a huge horde of zombies coming across the bridge from Pensacola. There must have been a thousand of them. We opened fire and probably killed hundreds of them. The din we were making attracted more from behind us. We had to fight our way off that fucking bridge to try and get back. My squad got separated, along with two others. There were so many Zs coming from all directions that we all wound up miles away.”

“Zs?” interrupted Jack.

“Yeah,” continued Tommy, “Zs. Zombies. That’s what the military is calling them. When we found our way back, the whole company was dead. Every last fucking one of them. I contacted Eglin AFB, and they said the base was surrounded by zombies, so we shouldn’t try to get through.

“We finally holed up in this warehouse. Every base we tried to contact was either abandoned or under siege. We all talked about what to do and couldn’t decide, so we split up.

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