Resurrection by Tony Monchinski

Author:Tony Monchinski
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: eden, end of the world, postapocalyptic, night of the living dead, zombie novel, living dead, walking dead, armageddon, apocalypse, dead rising
Publisher: Tony Monchinski
Published: 2012-08-27T23:30:28+00:00

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They woke in the rain and resumed their journey shortly thereafter. They passed through urban street canyons whose asphalt and cement were long split apart by the freezing and thawing of water. Ruts and fissures gave to gaps and yawning cavities, dropping a dozen feet or more to rain-dappled waters. They avoided these, stepping carefully around them. Other streets had disappeared into chasms, the buildings on either side leaning into the abyss or disintegrated into piles of rubble and building materials. Travel along these paths was impossible and necessitated a detour.

Buildings groaned in protest as they expanded and contracted, and the four friends looked about themselves nervously with every tick and snap. They passed burnt buildings and entire blocks reduced to debris with scorched steel skeletons protruding into the air. It was a cold and wet morning.

Krieger walked ahead in his customary place, putting the Bo before him, the Hawk MM1 still on his back. He coughed and spat.

“Can you believe this place was full of people once?” Anthony asked his friends.

“It’s weird.” Troi looked from deserted building to deserted building. “Where’d they go? I mean, I know where they went, but…”

“Places like this,” said Riley, “were never meant to be this quiet.”

“It seems…” Anthony’s imagined streets full of human beings, their sounds, their lives.

“It’s a sacrilege,” Krieger called over his shoulder.

“Yeah,” agreed Troi.

“He can hear us?” Evan whispered to Anthony. “He’s that far ahead and he can still hear us.”

“I saw you talking to him last night,” Riley mentioned to Troi. “What about?”

“Nothing really. Bear mostly.”

“Oh.”

Sometime later, Evan asked, “What’s up with the Krieg?” He looked ahead to their guide. Krieger had stopped in the middle of the street and unslung his grenade launcher, which he held muzzle down. He stood over something. As they drew close to him, they saw what it was.

A charred torso lay in the middle of the street. It was blackened beyond recognition, the limbs burned away, the eye sockets empty.

“What happened to him?” Anthony asked the guide.

“It’s not the what that concerns me.” Krieger glanced from the body to the buildings around them. “It’s the when.”

“When what?” asked Troi.

“This body isn’t like the others we’ve seen,” Riley pointed out.

“All we’ve seen are skeletons.”

“Exactly, Ev.”

“But this isn’t fresh or anything, right Krieger?” Anthony sounded like he wanted to be assured. .

The guide did not speak for some time, and while he was silent the friends looked around anxiously.

“You feel that?” Krieger finally asked.

“Feel what?” Evan said.

“Keep your voice down. We’re being watched.”

Troi and Anthony turned and looked around, up and down the street they’d come from, into the empty windows of the buildings on either side of this block.

“Where are they?” Riley asked. She’d taken a protective step closer to her brother and raised her Model 7.

“Don’t know. They want to be seen, they’ll be seen.”

“He’s right.” Troi shuddered in her poncho, but not from the rain or chill. “There’s no animals.”

“What should we do?” Evan gripped the barrel of his assault rifle.

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