The God Zombie by Nathan Jay

Author:Nathan Jay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JNJ Publishing LLC
Published: 2023-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

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The streets were mysteriously empty when Arlo looked out from the edge of the forest. He decided not to take the same route to the back of his parents’ house because he feared his father would be armed and waiting. Arlo staggered across the street and ran to a yard several spots away from his mother’s house. As he was about to run to the neighboring home, Isadora emerged from the bushes.

“Arlo! It’s me, Isadora!” she said inside his head.

Arlo stumbled over to her hiding spot.

“What are you doing here?”

“I saw you running through the forest, and I followed you. What’s going on?”

“That jerk, Forneus. He told me something bad’s about to happen.”

“The Red Army? Yeah, he told me about that, too.”

Arlo hadn’t thought of it earlier, but Isadora never talked about her family.

“Did you warn your family?” asked Arlo.

Isadora looked away. “What family? All I had was my mom and dad, and you know what happened to them.”

“You mean you don’t have any family? No cousins or aunts? Uncles?”

“Sure I do, but I’ve never met them. Mom told me she had a brother, but he’s a truck driver, always on the road. I heard I have cousins in Florida, but no one communicated with us. Something about my father being abused and cutting people off. Who knows? Everyone has the right to be alone, I guess.”

“That’s messed up.”

“Yeah, families are fucked up like that.”

Arlo ran into another yard and waited until Isadora caught up.

“What’s the plan?”

“What do you mean?”

“Didn’t your dad try to blow your head off the last time? How are you going to convince them to hide?”

Arlo shrugged and stared at the house next to his mother’s; the door was open, and something was lying on the doorstep.

“Well?” asked Isadora.

Arlo turned and looked at her. “What?”

“How are you going to convince them to move? Look at you. Your guts are hanging out from the gunshot wounds. How are you going to communicate? They can’t speak with their thoughts like us, and the rot in your throat is getting worse. Soon all you’ll be able to do is moan.”

Arlo ignored Isadora and crept closer to his neighbor’s house. The object on the doorstep looked familiar—like a human head. Isadora moved next to him and continued her conversation.

“Even if you could speak with your parents, what would you say? ‘Hi, Mom, I’m a zombie, and there’s about to be an invasion from Hell. Run and hide.’”

“Jesus, Isadora! Shut up!” snapped Arlo. “Something’s wrong. What’s that over there?”

Arlo ran through the darkness to the yard and slowly began inching toward the door. As he got closer, he saw blood splattered on the ground and the house.

“Wow! What do you suppose happened?” asked Isadora.

But Arlo didn’t respond. He spotted a head attached to a spinal cord lying next to a lawn chair. Soon Arlo saw the victim’s corpse. The clothing looked familiar, but he didn’t know why. Finally, with his foot, Arlo kicked the head, and it turned over—it was his father.

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