The Dead & Dying: A Zombie Novel by William Todd Rose

Author:William Todd Rose [Rose, William Todd]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 1453746412
Amazon: B008WXMZUK
Published: 2012-10-10T13:51:45+00:00

By the time we were within half a mile of the town, the wind had picked up to the point that we had to turn our heads away from its force just to see where we were going. Carl and Doc had swapped positions with the stretcher and for a while he and I had tried to make conversation with Watchmaker. The old man, however, was not in a talkative mood and the chill of the wind quickly dashed any further attempts at brightening his mood.

Silently, I'm sure we were all praying for the same thing: a small-town pharmacy that had remained unlooted or perhaps a doctor's office with supplies of medicine still intact. Though muffled by the piles of cloth covering her and the howling of the wind, we could still hear Sadie cough every now and then and with each wet hack my heart fluttered with concern.

“What the fuck?”

The urgency in Carl's voice made us all turn our heads into the wind from which we had previously tried to hide. In the distance, a wall of white advanced across the prairie like something from a biblical passage: it towered fifteen, maybe twenty, feet in the air and blotted out everything within its path, seeming to devour the occasional tree and crooked fence line as it barreled toward us.

“Holy shit.... ”

“We gotta move people!” Doc yelled out. “We gotta move now!”

“What the fuck is it?”

Doc dashed to the end of the stretcher and picked up the other end so that it was like a bridge connecting him to Carl.

“White out.” he called out. “Biggest fucking one I've ever seen. Now move!”

Doc barked out the words like a drill sergeant, leaving no room for further discussion as he and Carl tried to run through the snow without toppling Sadie into the dunes.

“Watchmaker, grab Josie's coat. Josie you grab mine and for God's sake people keep up and don't let go!”

As Doc would later tell us, this type of whiteout is created when a strong wind surges across the plains; the wind scatters powdery snow and lifts it on its gales, scooping up millions of tiny crystals with each passing second. With no mountains or natural barriers to impede progress, it forms what he referred to as a blizzard without any actual snowfall. And this parapet of snow and wind was gusting toward us at sixty-plus miles an hour.

We knew we'd never make it to the town before the storm overtook us, but we needed to close as much distance as we could before it hit. The whiteout could blow by us in as few as five seconds... or it could rage around us for much longer, depending on how strong the wind was.

“Move, move, move!”

We couldn't risk getting turned around in squall, wandering further and further from the town that possibly held Sadie's only hope for survival. There was no other option than to push forward as quickly as we could.

We'd closed maybe half the distance by the time the howling winds blasted against our bodies with the force of a linebacker.

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