The Screaming (Book 1): Dead City by Warwick Matthew

Author:Warwick, Matthew [Warwick, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2016-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The hospice was only built a few years ago. It contained all the latest facilities and so was understandably well sort after. Zac took his mother there three times a week and stayed with her throughout her physiotherapy sessions and interactive classes. She was at the later stages of the condition and only had months left. She could hardly even function, but had moments of normality that Zac cherished. His dad couldn’t face going along anymore, Zac guessed it brought on feelings of inevitability, that she was close to the end, and his father simply couldn’t face it.

Every day, his mum would start her session with a physiotherapist called Annie, a young girl who had recently qualified, followed by art classes and talks on treatment before finishing with a cup of tea. As the months went on, the sessions became harder for Zac. His mother was slowly leaving her body, piece by piece, until she couldn’t even recognise him at all. One day she even yelled in panic when he tried to take her home at the end of the day, thinking he was a strange man trying to kidnap her. Obviously its times like that, that Zac found hardest to cope with.

He took solace at the end of every session that something always stayed with his mum. Her faith. She hadn’t been much of a religious person before, but when she started to get sick, it gave her something to believe in. Zac would often tut and snigger as she read extracts of the bible to him as they sipped their tea. He struggled to believe in a god that would cause such a lovely woman to wither in such a heartless way.

As they finished their tea and started to pack up to go home, she would read an extract from the bible. A different one every time, followed by…

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