The Zombies: Volume One by Macaulay C Hunter

Author:Macaulay C Hunter [Hunter, Macaulay C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic
Amazon: B00DPN46BI
Published: 2013-06-28T05:00:00+00:00

Brennan

He worried that the knocking at the door was Papa. The sound came in shapes as he woke from a nap on the sofa. Thud thud thud and he listened for the color. Red squares were angry knocks; friendly yellow taps were neighborhood children selling cookies. The pizza deliveryman was the only one who ever used the knocker, a rattling blue lance that pierced twice through the house. This trio of brisk thuds was the same disinterested beige as the door. They traveled to him in circles, the rap of knuckles radiating out where the red square was made by the side of a fist. Whoever was at the door was impatient but not angry.

Papa had followed Mama from work last Friday to figure out where they now lived. She spotted his old car in the rearview mirror as she drove across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was purely chance that she looked back, intending to check on the new television latched into the back seat and spying him. A coworker had sold her the television for dirt cheap, since he bought a bigger one.

She made a wrong turn on purpose and drove all around San Francisco with the new television until the rearview mirror no longer showed Papa’s car. He had also called her work to wheedle for information, but Mama was smarter and warned her boss not to give anything out. Yet Brennan worried, since Mama said ruefully after their television was set up and playing that even so, she missed Papa now and then.

Brennan did not miss him at all and hoped that Mama held more tightly to her recent memories of the bad times than the better ones from the distant past. Maybe it had just been an idle remark, born of seeing a man and woman dance beautifully together on the screen. Papa knew how to dance, how to open a door for a woman, how to say nice things in front of other men about her cooking. But Papa also knew how to shush a woman for speaking, how to say terrible things about her son, how to strike her in the face. Mama had to remember that, to turn a deaf ear to his platitudes and a hearing one to his insults.

Brennan worried that Papa would come to her office and make trouble, but a zombie was causing the biggest trouble today. At lunchtime, the police suddenly descended on the block where Mama worked and shut it down, telling everyone to lock their doors. A zombie was loose in the area! A man’s Zyllevir had stopped working weeks ago, but his family did not want him to go to a confinement point so they doubled and then tripled his dose to treat the sickness at home. Mama and the other workers raced about the building in terror, even locking the windows on the third floor.

Some men sneaked out to their cars and left a door ajar. Mama discovered this on a second sweep through the building and screamed as she ran to close and lock it.

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