The Z Strain by Matthew Isaiah Crawford

Author:Matthew Isaiah Crawford [Crawford, Matthew Isaiah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2020-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

Colorado Wyoming border

5:35 PM Saturday

Andrea Martin had been driving non-stop since leaving Marcus’ house in the wee hours of the morning. She had some difficulties skirting around Ft. Collins, but once she’d gotten clear of that city it had been fairly smooth sailing. The light had begun as a thin strip of light blue off in the eastern planes. In the last half hour had exploded into an array of pinks and blues that reminded Andrea of cotton candy. That beauty however can never last and was soon chased away revealing a crisp blue sky with some wisps of white clouds.

After hours of buildup, she had finally resigned herself to stop to take a bathroom break. She had refused to stop while it was still dark outside. She pulled off the side of the road on a desolate stretch of land.

There wasn’t a car or house in sight for miles, no movement of any kind. Though she had pulled off next to a large shrub, thinking that she would go and squat behind it. As she began to make her way towards it, she realized how ridiculous the idea was in her current situation. She should be less concerned with her modesty and more concerned to see what may be coming her way. So, with those thoughts in mind she dropped her pants on the side of the road and urinated where she stood.

She was nearly knocked off her feet into her own urine stream when she jumped from a large explosion coming from the south. She pulled her pants quickly and up and stood, stumbling out to the middle of the road. A grey plume of smoke is rising into the sky disturbing the crisp blue sky. By her estimation it was no more than 20 miles back. She stood stared at the column of smoke rising into the sky for some time before returning to her car.

She had her hands on the steering wheel but hadn’t yet started the car. She could see the smoke in the rear-view mirror. Her mind was racing. One simple fact was weighing on her mind.

It was people. It had to be people that set off that explosion. Weather the explosion was in defense of the infected, or for some other reason, it was people.

The thought that finally made her turn the car around was, she needed to be with other people. She didn’t want to do this on her own. Leaving a tuft of smoke, the little blue car made a U-turn in the middle of the road and headed back in the direction she had just come. Back towards the explosion, towards people.

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