Z-Burbia 4: Cannibal Road by Jake Bible

Author:Jake Bible
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 1925225062
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2014-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

We had pulled out of the river in Sequoyah Park and were lucky enough to find that the park was bordered by some seriously swank houses with excellent views of the river. How nice for them.

We picked one at random, a modern looking, four-story semi-mansion, and didn’t have too hard a time breaking in. The doors were locked solid, but not solid enough against a rock through a window. Without any alarm systems to worry about, we broke and entered old school. Like, Neanderthal old school. Rock go smash!

The smell inside told us that somebody had been home at one time and maybe hadn’t quite left yet. We were cautious as we went room to room, making sure to stay together, and scouted for Zs. We’d covered all of the floors from the ground up, which left only the basement.

“The smell is stronger down there,” Greta said. “But it’s old.”

She was right. The smell was old. It was the faint stink of rotted meat and the putrid stench of a trapped Z. Not fresh at all, more like a memory than a current thought.

Step by step, we slowly descended into the basement. It wasn’t hard to figure out what had happened to the family that had lived there once we got down to the bottom.

“Jesus,” Charlie said, as we all stood around the ancient Z that could barely clack its jaws at us. “It ate them all.”

The scene was of a family trying to escape from a loved one. It was a scene we had witnessed a hundred times since Z-day. They thought they were safe down in the basement from the Zs above, but something went wrong and one of their own turned. The mother. I could see that the family members, a dad and three kids, fought back, since the Z’s legs had been hacked off at the knees, yet that hadn’t been enough to keep its hunger at bay.

However it managed it, it caught a couple of the other members and gave them some good, hard chomps. The kids’ heads had been split open by the dad and he had tried to kill Z-Mom with the hatchet he held, but he’d missed and only managed to bury it in her shoulder. He was probably too weak to get the hatchet out for a second whack and finish the job, so he finished himself instead.

A screwdriver stuck out from his temple.

“I think they were going for there,” Greta said as she looked at the far wall.

I turned the flashlight in that direction and saw a bookshelf that had been partly pushed away from the wall. We walked over and couldn’t believe what we saw.

“A safe room,” Charlie said. “Cool.”

“Yeah, until you run out of air,” Greta said.

Then it made sense. The family hadn’t been trying to get to the safe room, but had escaped it. When the power gave out, even whatever backup power they had, the safe room lost its ability to circulate the air. They had to get out or suffocate.

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