The Dead Series (Book 2): Dead Calm by Schafer Jon

Author:Schafer, Jon [Schafer, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: undead apocalypse, series, dead, zombie, cruise, walking dead, apocalypse
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Woman's Lake Minnesota:

The bonfire in front of the lodge melted the snow around it in a wide circle. Clustered on the half frozen ground was an assorted collection of slat, camp and folding lawn chairs that were as varied as the people occupying them. Some were refugees who fled from the HWNW virus when it swept through the big cities but most were residents of the nearby small town of Woman's Lake. Even before the call for tonight's emergency meeting, they came out most evenings to enjoy the company of Carl Hibbing, owner of the lodge and the cabins that surrounded it. Having lived his entire life in the small town, Carl was well known to its inhabitants, as was his father and grandfather. For three generations, one Hibbing or another had served as mayor to Woman's Lake, which, after the last census, could brag a full-time population of six hundred seventy-nine.

Scattered among the townies around the fire were a dozen summer residents who owned cabins near the lodge. Among them were also a few refugees who had moved into some of the unused fishing camps scattered around the lake. They had shown up in October and November, after being forced from their homes in the cities and before the town quarantined itself to outsiders.

These refugees were at first met with the inherent friendliness the people of northern Minnesota were known for, but soon distrust built up in the locals, and they kept their distance. The suspicions and exclusion came about as the newcomers told horrendous stories about bodies said to be infected with the HWNW virus being burned by the thousands in the streets of Minneapolis, Fargo and Duluth and of armed National Guardsmen shooting down anyone acting strange or aggressive.

The most horrendous story they told though, was that people were dying and coming back to life to feed on the living.

The citizens of Woman's Lake watched the news and where it was reported that, while some isolated incidents of death had occurred as a result of the spreading virus, the government had the situation under control. Since this didn't jibe with what was being related to them by the refugees, there was just no way that their story could be true. Thus, the people of Woman's Lake discarded what they considered tall tales, and a schism was created between the townies and the refugees.

This changed however, when the first case of HWNW cropped up in a local man named Otis Trevor. He had recently returned from a trip to the State Capitol where he had been bitten and infected after propositioning the wrong prostitute. The people of Woman's Lake quickly became believers after Otis had to be beaten down and killed by a frying pan wielding cook at Gram's Diner. This was after he entered and attacked a waitress and one of the patrons during the lunchtime rush, tearing bloody chucks of skin and muscle off and swallowing them. The incident was witnessed by thirty of the townsfolk, so there could no longer be any denying the disease was just as the refugees claimed.

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