The Living Dead Boy by Frater Rhiannon

Author:Frater, Rhiannon [Frater, Rhiannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-11-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Josh froze for a second, his hand still reaching for the door knob. The creature in front of him resembled his mother, but the horrible shriek that emanated from its blue lips and milky eyes meant only one thing.

“Want Mama!” Drake declared, trying to dart past Josh.

Catching his younger brother, Josh was released from his paralysis. In seconds, his mind processed that he couldn’t hold his brother back and close the door at the same time with the zombie swiftly moving toward them. He quickly made his choice.

Lifting his little brother off the ground, Josh ran down the hallway toward the archway that led into the dining room. Behind him, he could hear the hard clap of his mother’s boots against the wood floor. She wasn’t as fast as the zombies at the school, but she was close behind him.

Drake cried, his arms flung out toward his mother, his eyes squeezed shut, his mouth open in a wail that didn’t seem to end. He was heavy, but adrenaline fueled his older brother’s flight across the small dining room.

Risking a few precious seconds, Josh reached out with one hand, snagged the back of one of the big wooden dining room chairs and sent it crashing to the floor behind him. The shriek of the zombie was cut off abruptly as it tripped and slammed into the floor face first.

The child gate guarded the door to the kitchen. There was no way he could leap over it holding his younger brother, so Josh tossed the three year old over the barricade. Drake landed on his side and burst into even louder cries. Josh scrambled over the gate, feeling the faint brush of his zombified mother’s hand against his ankle. Snagging Drake’s arm, he dragged him, hitting the door to the laundry room at full steam. He wrenched it open and pushed Drake through before following.

As he pulled the door shut, he saw the zombie that had been his mother trying to get over the child gate, the gun still clutched in her hand. She toppled over the gate head first, slamming into the kitchen floor. The gun fired with a sharp crack, the bullet slamming into the wall near Josh.

“Crap!” Josh slammed the door shut and turned to see his brother laying on the floor sobbing.

“Mama, Mama,” Drake wailed.

Pulling the curtain slightly away from the window next to the back door, Josh looked into the backyard. It was peaceful. The high fence and locked gate had kept the zombie chaos from flowing over onto their property. The boughs of the oak tree that sheltered his tree house were swaying in the winds of the oncoming storm. The sky was now completely gray and threatening rain.

The door behind him began to tremble as the zombie on the other side began to beat against it. Terrified that the gun would go off again, Josh dragged Drake into his arms. His mother had said they needed to go somewhere safe until his dad could get them.

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