Shore Haven (Short Story 4): Welcome To Edge Burrow by Reynolds Jennifer

Author:Reynolds, Jennifer [Reynolds, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror | Dystopian | Zombies
Publisher: Jennifer Reynolds
Published: 2020-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

9

During the first few days I spent watching the zombies in the shipping crates, I killed as many of the turned as I could. I disposed of the bodies by rolling them down the side of the cliff and into the water below. No one ever noticed.

I had no idea at that time what Dominic wanted the zombies for, but whatever it was, I knew it wasn’t strictly for training purposes, and anything I could do to hinder his plans, I would do it.

I also found it odd that Dominic gave me that job without any help or supervision. He was showing me something vital to his plans for Edge Burrow or perhaps Liberty Island, which I found strange considering, if I were him, I wouldn’t trust me. I’d made my opinion about him clear. I guessed he hoped that one of the creatures might get free and kill me.

Answers to some of my musings came three days later when Jasmine and a few other women approached me while I was working the farthest end of the yard. I was trying to empty one of the cattle trailers. I nearly gutted the woman who’d wrapped one arm around my waist and a hand around my mouth in an attempt not to startle me—I assumed.

“Don’t scream,” Jasmine said before I reacted.

“What the fuck?” I said when the woman let me go.

“I don’t think anyone is guarding you, but we didn’t want you screaming in surprise.”

“Not the best way to go about that. I nearly stabbed you. Whatever. What are you doing sneaking around here?”

“We need to talk.”

“About?”

“About Dominic.”

I’d learned from passing conversations that the people of Edge Burrow called Dominic King for no other reason than he wanted them to call him that. Most didn’t do so when they knew they were outside his line of hearing. Only those utterly terrified or devoted to him did all of the time.

“And how the son of a bitch needs to die?” I said, looking at each woman in turn and daring them to argue with me.

“Precisely,” Jasmine said, also glancing at the women with her.

All of them nodded in agreement.

“What do you have planned?” I said, leaning against a metal crate and causing the occupants to pound the inside in an attempt to get to me.

“Nothing that we think will work,” Jasmine said, looking defeated.

“Then why come to me?”

“We were hoping you could help us.”

“How? I haven’t been here long enough to know anything about Dominic, and I’m stuck out here every day. I’ve seen very little of the town or its inhabitants. I barely know my way from my home to here.”

“And here is key.”

“How so?”

“We think whatever he intends to do with these creatures is our best chance of getting to him.”

“Do you know what he’s planning?” I asked.

“Not exactly, but we think it involves the bridge and Liberty. Sonia says she’s heard a rumor that he’s working with some people on the island to lower the bridge.”

“What does that have to do with the zombies?”

“We don’t know.

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