The Queen of the Dead by Vincenzo Bilof

Author:Vincenzo Bilof
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror, Fiction
ISBN: 9781925047202
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2013-09-02T22:00:00+00:00

MINA

Not even the creature Traverse left behind to finish her off wanted to taste her flesh. The zombie’s eyes didn’t seem to see her, and as she wandered the streets covered in gore, not a single corpse displayed interest in her. She moved among them as if she didn’t exist. She was a ghost. Maybe she was already dead. Maybe none of this was real, and her nightmare had extended itself into a special hell reserved for her alone.

The rain didn’t wash away the blood, nor did it cure the growling in her stomach, or the nausea, or the shivers, or her aching bones. Her universe was composed of pain. She wandered into drug stores to find her medication, but found the pharmacies bare. She wouldn’t know exactly what she needed, even if she found anything.

The dead ignored her.

Soaked by the rain, corpses walked like pedestrians who were leaving a sports event in which their team had lost and would never win anything again. The dead grasped at walls and hung out in doorways. Scattered screams and gunshots had become familiar, and their absence produced greater terror, like a bill that was supposed to have been paid six months ago. For the last twenty-four hours, genocide had spared no soul of its tragedy.

She walked but didn’t know where she was going. Her head was filled with the tired rambling of a thousand voices. She heard Daddy, Jim, Patrick, Jake, Jerome; she heard Vincent and Rhonda, Shanna and Derek. She was back at the church and then standing outside the church. She heard Desmond’s voice in a garage, hollow and angry at the same time. She was in her cell and she was out of her cell. She was having sex in front of a camera, and there was another voice.

A voice that spoke very clearly, as if it came from behind her.

What does your soul long for?

She didn’t know how old she was. Blank spaces occupied her history; lying on her back while her Daddy gave her chores to do—walking through alleyways until a man in a sport jacket grabbed her hand and led her to a strange place, a man who became Patrick. Videos and long nights, conversations in the dark. A bed turned into a lake of blood, the police removing her from the scene. Maybe there was a trial. A cold cell with her hands folded neatly between her thighs, patiently waiting for Jake to come back with a message from Jim, who admired her.

Her life, collected in pieces.

Now you know who you are. Now you know what you are.

Patrick was out there; he showed her what it meant to be a woman.

Sleep or death. Rain or blood. Expensive cars abandoned to a wasteland of metal. Burnt husks lying inert in skeletal vehicles, fire rending the fleshless corpses unto a state between barbecue and ash. Blood draining into the street with water. Paper and clothes soaking into the concrete, stamped there forever. A random burglar alarm from a store or a car provoking a response from wayward zombies who seemed bored with existence.

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