The Pestilence Collection [Books 1-3] by Rob Cockerill

Author:Rob Cockerill [Cockerill, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

20th May 2016

Is anyone out there? Seriously, is anyone reading this? Has this all been a sick Government trial of some sadistic, intelligence nature? Will there be an end to all of this shit and suffering?

I'm lashing out mentally. We all are, in the wake of Alice's death. Jenny and I knew her for little more than a week, but it was still too short. Worse still, the brutal manner of her passing was arguably the worst thing I have seen since this shit started nearly for months ago.

The bloody outline of Alice’s body still stares back at us from afar, our eyes drawn to it the moment we walk into the glass fronted observatory tower and face up to the scene outside. I have scrubbed and scraped at the parcel of tarmac where she lay, dismembered. I’ve used whatever concoctions of bleaches and detergents we have available to us to scour away the bloody imprint of her demise, but still the foreboding faded red silhouette of her surrender haunts us.

I can’t scrub anymore, I’ve got nothing more to give to the task, though Jack feels otherwise and continues to spend hours scrubbing at the scene like a madman. The hungered growling of a hundred insatiable corpses grappling and grasping at the fence besides it is enough to make you feel like a madman; I can only describe it as like when you’ve seen a TV drama try to replicate the impact of a bomb going off in close proximity to someone. It rings and reverberates in your head, with a feeling of being in another world, a deathly bubble almost. The blanket of groaning and moaning becomes an overbearing backdrop to the frantic scrubbing your bleeding hands are focused on, your peripheral vision narrowing and your view of the foreground blurring all at once.

For the first time since mid-February, I feel like I’m not sure where we go from here. We are, to all intents and purposes, safe up here and we have for some time seen a longer-term survival here. Well, Jenny has had increasing doubts, but we have generally built our future around this former military base. It’s not so much the security of the place that’s in question; despite the hundreds upon hundreds of rotting, raging corpses that pile pressure on the base’s defences, we still can’t imagine the site being overrun. It’s holding up well so far, despite the torture of the situation.

It’s more the question of whether our minds can hold up in the face of these mental machinations and torment. Where do we go from here, mentally? Can the children ever get over the things they have witnessed and been subjected to? Within the same four walls, imprisoned and oppressed, I’m not sure they will be able to. For Nic, it has not just been the same four wall for the last few days, but the same four corners of her bunkbed; she has barely been seen outside of the comforting hug of her bedsheets.

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