The Undead Zombie Anthology by D. L. Snell

Author:D. L. Snell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-11-27T01:27:36+00:00

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The sky darkened and out of the west came forks of lightning and blasts of thunder. At each blast, Victor looked up, his eyes glowing oddly in the minute blasts of light. Drops of rain appeared on the windshield. Bridgett turned on the hummer’s heater and windshield wipers. The drops quickly became a torrent, the rain sluicing off the windshield, the wipers barely able to keep up.

“Perhaps we should stop,” said Victor. He was looking ahead, where the beams of the headlights were barely piercing the darkness.

“Good idea, but I’ll keep the engine running.” Bridgett slowed, staying in the middle of the road, allowing the vehicle to come to a stop. She put it in park and turned to face Victor.

“Do you have any idea why this has happened to the world?”

He shook his large head, eyes hidden in the dim light of the dashboard. “Perhaps the creator is annoyed at humanity’s intrusions in his domain.”

Bridgett shut the headlights off. If the rain stopped suddenly, as spring storms were wont to do, they would serve as a beacon to any unfriendly things-not all of them dead.

“What’s your first memory?”

Victor was usually annoyed at questions and sought not to answer them, but his companion’s were so open, her curiosity so refreshing, he felt it would be wrong not to answer.

“Pain. My rebirth was painful. The Baron was hoping that I would have my previous memories, but this was not to be. When the brain is starved of oxygen, whatever holds our memory fails and the memories, the personality of the person, is gone.”

“Wow! You were like a newborn baby!”

“Yes, for lack of a better way of saying it. But I was an abandoned baby. Many times I’ve wondered if the dead eat the living because they are in pain, or are jealous that they feel nothing. Perhaps that is why they attack me, even though my flesh is not appealing to them.”

Bridgett stared at him. “How do you know that?”

Victor smiled in his sad way, only the right side of his mouth rising. Pulling back his left sleeve he showed her the teeth marks. “Early on one of them got close enough to take a taste. He spit out what he’d taken, but it takes me a long while to heal.”

“Do you know what happens to one of us when we get bitten?”

“You die. Horribly and slowly, always aware each time you fall asleep that perhaps the next time you wake, it will be as an empty vessel, filled with nothing but endless hunger. I’ve seen it many times.”

Bridgett crossed her arms. “You make it sound so simple.”

“It is,” he replied. “Mankind is facing its greatest challenge. The dead are prevailing. Whoever survives to conquer them will make the race stronger, if anyone survives.”

“So,” Bridgett asked, her voice strained. “Why do you rescue us?”

Victor drew in a deep breath. “I do it so I can get supplies, a safe place to rest for a while. Because I would not want to see the light of humanity fade from the world.

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