Ravaged World Saga (5 Horror Novels) (Ravaged World Trilogy Book 0) by Iain Rob Wright

Author:Iain Rob Wright [Wright, Iain Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SalGad Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-17T22:00:00+00:00

Anna

Anna was in the diner, applying a fresh dressing to her patient’s wound. The flesh was pale rather than red, which was good; there seemed little sign of infection. At first she’d held little hope of the man surviving, but slowly her opinion was beginning to change. He had made it through the night, the morning, and now the afternoon. His breathing was steady and his eyelids flickered as he dreamed.

“He may yet live,” said Rene. “A fighter.”

Anna fastened the last of the fresh bandages and stepped away. “Fighters are the only people left.”

Rene nodded. He offered Anna a glass of water. “You have cut your hair, Anna. I like it.”

Anna took the glass and smiled. She had cut her scruffy brown hair to shoulder-length a few days ago. Up until now, nobody had noticed. “Thank you,” she said. How are we doing for supplies?”

“Plenty of rain lately. We have lots of water…and fish – always so much fish.”

Anna chuckled. “Yep, no lack of Omega-3 in our diets. Hopefully, Garfield will bring us back something to get our taste buds dancing again.”

“You think he will return to us?”

“You think he won’t?”

Rene looked sad. He always looked sad – like a scorned puppy-dog. “I think we have all forgotten the danger that stalks the earth. We have become too comfortable on this pier: fresh fish, water, safety. We forget the journey we all took to get here.”

Anna thought back to the people who had not made the journey: Nick, Grace, Dave, Shawcross, Jan, Mike…oh, how she missed Mike. Her next thoughts were of the creatures that had ripped her past companions apart. She could easily recall the screeching wails of the infected and the soft moans of the dead. Sometimes those sounds filled the silence whenever she sat alone. It would force her to grab a paperback and read just to keep her mind focused on things other than death. Losing so many people had made her hard and cold – even more than she had already been. Before the infection, the death of her unborn child haunted her daily. Now the death of her unborn child was just one of a hundred deaths she mourned. It had left her heart unable to beat with anything other than mistrust and scorn. The infected and the dead had removed her capacity for anything approaching joy.

Fortunately the infected – who ran and leapt like ferocious tigers – had all but died out. Only a living person with a bite became infected, but once they died they would soon rise again and continue their murderous quest as zombies. The dead were slow and stupid – they could be avoided in small numbers and were only a danger in great crowds. Fortunately, there were very few around the village and the pier. Anna surmised that the local residents had owned boats and fled to sea when the first wave of infections began.

When they found the pier, Anna, Rene, and the half-dozen other survivors they’d met

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