United States of the Dead: White Flag Series by Joseph Talluto

Author:Joseph Talluto
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: zombies white flag of the dead walking deadzombie apocalypse horror
Publisher: Joseph Talluto

Chapter 13

Lightning arced across the black sky, illuminating clouds thick with rain. Water fell from the heavens and trees bent in the howling winds, bowing under the weight of the falling rain. Deep rumblings followed the lightning and the hard concussion of strikes shook the foundations of the little buildings caught in this summer tempest.

The lightning exposed what walked at night, heedless of the rain and wind. In the brief flashes illuminating the landscape, the horror of the dark was revealed one slow step at a time. The dead were out in the storm and each strike of lightning showed them moving closer and closer.

I looked out of the hardware store window and surveyed the scene before me. Dead bodies were scattered around the road and store, forming small dams as the rain tried to wash their stain away. They were the losers in a running fight I had to get to this place, managing to separate myself from my team and getting cut off by the remaining ghouls which waited for me outside.

The lightning crashed again, revealing dark forms moving in my direction.

A sound from the back room caught my attention and I briefly cocked an ear that way. It was a small cough, small enough to belong to a child. I turned my head and caught the eye of the woman sitting back there. She looked at me fearfully, but relaxed when I shook my head. With the rain, wind and thunder, it was unlikely that the Z’s would hear us. We couldn’t shout to each other, but small sounds would probably go unnoticed. I wondered if the girl was infected. We’d know soon enough either way.

I found myself keeping a hand on my gun as I watched the zombies get closer. Not that the gun would be much help. I had used up my entire carbine and pistol ammo to get us to this place and all I had left was the mini pickaxe with a modified handle and my knife. If I was facing just one or two zombies, I wouldn’t be so worried. But the lightning showed me ten times that number and that was something not any sane man would run willingly to.

Another sound from the back caused me to look again and this time I made eye contact with the man back there, husband to the woman. I shook my head again and he relaxed, although he continued to throw glances my way as if he expected me to attack him myself. I chuckled. In his shoes, I might have looked at me the same way too.

In the gloom outside, I watched the zombies milling about in the rain. They couldn’t see, and they couldn’t hear very well with the rain. The lightning flashes caused them to jerk one way, while the thunder caused them to jerk another. Some of them stumbled over fallen comrades, to be washed away briefly before regaining their unsteady forms.

But they steadily moved in this direction, one way or the other.

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