So Long, Lollipops (An Until the End of the World Novella) by Fleming Sarah Lyons

Author:Fleming, Sarah Lyons [Fleming, Sarah Lyons]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-02-22T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

At first the roads took him past widely-spaced houses and fields choked with weeds. It all looked so desolate. Even the houses that didn’t have signs of struggle—broken windows or bodies out front—looked lonely. He felt like the last human on Earth. He wasn’t, of course, which was the only thing that kept him sane. He tried to imagine someone driving blindly along these roads, hoping to find something besides the small groups of Lexers he’d passed, and saw how it would be possible to give up. The old Peter probably would have, but not him.

He knew there was good out there in the world, hidden in places like campgrounds and tiny lake islands. And even if he arrived at Kingdom Come to find they hadn’t made it there, he wouldn’t give up. The thought made the inside of his cheek bloody, but he had to entertain it. It was reality.

Okay, that had been enough entertaining of reality. He concentrated on the road. It’d turned into one and a half lanes of rutted, dried mud. If Rich hadn’t assured him that it went through, he would have turned back by now. Finally, he came out onto a road that looked like it had been driven on by something other than logging trucks. He followed it north, branching onto smaller roads with the occasional tiny town center and groups of Lexers loitering around the general stores and empty intersections.

He’d just passed the point of charted territory when he hit his first road blockage. How a traffic jam came to be in the middle of this stretch of dirt road was beyond him, but there were four cars and no way around. He looked into the woods to make sure they were empty and kept the scuffing of his boots to a minimum while he meandered around the scene. There was a one-armed body in a car, head leaning against the window.

He pushed between it and the car alongside and almost lost his shit when the body moved. Its head slammed against the window, the leathery skin of its mummified face leaving flakes in its wake. It knelt on the seat, its red-veined eyes hungry. Peter breathed out and watched it struggle. Sometimes it felt as though this were a dream—a nightmare, really. That there was such a thing as zombies was unbelievable. Maybe Nat should hold out for that sparkly vampire.

He walked to the lead car, a silver Prius angled across the road. The cars behind had slammed into it when it’d stopped short after hitting something. That something was under its front wheel, still alive. Or undead, take your pick. It reached its arms up and clacked its teeth, so eager that it almost separated from its legs pinned under the tire. Peter stabbed his machete through its eye.

The Prius’s door was open, but the keys were gone. There was no other way to shift it into neutral that he knew of. He bet John could’ve done it. The

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