Waiting to Die (Book 1) by Cochran Richard M

Author:Cochran, Richard M. [Cochran, Richard M.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2012-10-01T07:00:00+00:00

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Upon the next landing, they make their way over the last few bodies and move beyond another broken out window. Rain pelts them through the broken out pane, driven by the furious winds that have accompanied the storm. Lightning snaps through the sky, electrifying clouds that drift like dirty cotton outside the window. It is as if April could reach out and touch them, feel the wetness of the storm with the vapors that make up their gloom. Her face tingles as the spray hits her face, activating senses that she hasn't felt in a long time. The dirt and grime rinse away as she wipes her face on the sleeve of her shirt.

“Come on, let's go,” Johnny urges.

April turns to Johnny, “I was just...”

“I know,” Johnny empathizes. “There's no time.”

As Johnny takes the next flight of stairs, April looks back, dreaming for only a moment before following him again. She shakes the fancy from her mind with a sigh. She can't help but to think of being clean, of washing herself in the downpour, of feeling fresh if only for a fleeting moment. Her heart aches for the way the world once was.

“Damn it!” Johnny's anger rises. “It's locked,” he says as he pushes on the door.

Slamming his hands on the door, he reserves himself to resting his forehead on the obstruction. He takes a deep breath and turns without a word and begins making his way to the next set of stairs. In his mind’s eye, he can remember this place from before, how it bustled with people running through their lives trying to make it to their next appointment. He can envision how each new client walked through the door of his office, sad and forlorn, only wanting to get out of the debt they had accumulated from years of living off of credit cards. The amount of burden was often times beyond his level of number crunching. More often than not, he would recommend bankruptcy and watch their faces slacken in disbelief.

He was intent on getting to the cafeteria that he had spent so many hours, year after year, wasting time on undercooked food and the poorest quality meals that came out of a can. Having rationed their food supply to the point of near starvation, he felt it fitting to have one more meal and a place to sleep for the night before continuing to the dock; that is if the food hadn't already been looted. If he had known that there were so many of the dead waiting, he wouldn't have bothered signing his death warrant by coming here.

After finding every entry point locked on the way down, Johnny falls against the wall at the first floor access and lowers himself down until he is sitting on the dirty floor. “I'm so sorry,” he says and holds his head in his hands.

“There's still another floor,” April replies, lowering herself down on bended knee next to him.

“That goes to the basement,” Johnny shakes his head. “The only thing down there is a furnace and.

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