The Great Wreck (Novella): Year of the Dead by Stewart Jack

Author:Stewart, Jack [Stewart, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Iron Cross Publishing
Published: 2016-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

A few hours later, I watched them pack their station wagon and head south from the top of the Days Inn. Once I was sure they were well on their way, I hit the streets and headed north towards the police station while coming up with Rule Number Six: No sex with strangers. At least no unprotected sex. No need to get herpes or pregnant in the City of the Dead.

I don’t know what I expected to find at the police station. Adults? Police? Probably but they wouldn’t be among the living. Weapons? Yes, definitely weapons. Pistols, shotguns, maybe hand grenades. I didn’t know what I would do with hand grenades, but if they had some, I was going to get me a few.

I was definitely sore and raw in places I had never, ever been sore or raw in. I was bruised and punctured from the fall out of my parent’s apartment, scrapped from my tumble along the asphalt, and generally rubbed vigorously raw (and again punctured, ha, ha) from my carnal adventures the night before. Luckily for me I would likely pass a convenience store on my way to the police station and could pick up some aspirin to help with all my bumps and bangs.

And not a few blocks away from the hotel, I was right. On the corner was a Walgreens that had a small SUV parked conveniently inside the front doors knocking an opening just for me. Well Jimmy crack corn (and I don’t care)! I crouched under the broken glass and twisted metal of the front doors and crawled into the store. The lights were out but the early morning sunshine was coming in through the high windows near the ceiling. Whoever had crashed into the Walgreens had done an effective job of sealing the dead out. I stood there in the half-light waiting for anything to move at me out of the quiet store. But there was nothing. After a few more minutes of nothing I decided that the store was empty. You might say I assumed the store was empty. Not a good way to start the day.

I walked down the aisles grabbing candy bars, aspirin, Neosporin, tampax, and anything else I thought I might need for being out in the bad old world. I stopped at the refrigerated section and drank like three cans of coke, then put a few in my pack. With most of the world dead there probably wasn’t going to be a shortage of soda lying around but, hey, you never know. It wasn’t like the guys down in Atlanta were going to be churning out fresh cans of the stuff anytime soon.

As I finished my third can of pop off I realized I was not alone. We all know what assuming does, right? Yep. An ass of you and me and the dead cannibal standing just a few feet away. The driver of the SUV maybe? Maybe. He didn’t look too fresh and had he been a sprinter I would have heard him way before I saw him.

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