The Zombie Chronicles 2: Discovery by Mark Clodi

Author:Mark Clodi [Clodi, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

The van was jammed with undead, the sliding door remained open and Nita directed one more woman to push into the squirming mass.

“Nita?” Hugh asked.

“What?”

“I don't think that one should count, she only has one arm.”

“Shit.” she said, pulling the zombie woman back. Pushing the woman to move west with her mind Nita looked around for another zombie that might fit into the van. Not seeing one she shrugged her shoulders and tried to slide the van door shut. It took some effort and required Hugh's help. Once closed they stepped back and the van rocked slowly as the undead moved around inside of it. The two of them were at an old farmhouse out in the middle of a bunch of cornfields, zombies were streaming by slowly through the corn, making it ripple like water in a pond.

“It is still a pretty good count, for a van anyway.” Hugh said.

“I dunno, I think I could do better.” from the tone of her voice Nita thought she could do much better.

“Do you think they will eat each other?”

This brought another shrug, “I dunno. It could happen, if they get hungry enough. There might be enough energy in there to make one of them almost normal again.”

They took a few more steps back from the gently swaying light blue van. “Nita?”

“What Hugh?”

He gestured towards the van, “Why do you do that?”

“I don't know. It just makes me happy. I don't know why.”

Red bounded out of a corn field and up to them. He looked over the van and smiled, “Good one Nita! I don't think you could have gotten more in.”

The zombie woman shrugged her shoulders and looked out across the fields.

“What?” Red asked, looking at Hugh, “Did I say something wrong?”

“She thinks she could have done better.”

Red put his arm around Nita's shoulders, “Well practice makes progress, so chalk this one up to experience and do better next time.”

Nita turned her head to look at Red, “Red, why do I do this?”

“You are asking me? I don't know, doesn't it make you feel good?”

“Well yeah, but why does it make me feel good?”

Red thought about it for a minute, the smiled and said, “HellifIknow. I do know one thing though.”

“What?”

“I am jealous because of it.”

“Really?”

“Yeah love, I don't have anything like it. Hugh here doesn't either. Of the three of us you are the only one with a hobby. You are the only one that really feels good about things anymore.”

Nita looked dubiously at Red, arching her eyebrows, “Stuffing zombies into cars and vans and semi trailers is a good hobby?”

“Better than anything I have to do. Who cares 'why' anyway?”

“I do, I guess.”

“Well don't. We have a job to do and if you can have some fun along the way I say that is great.”

“He didn't get very far, that Max, did he?”

All three of them could feel the man named Max about seventy miles away and to the north of them. The trio had managed to divert

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