Zombie Fallout | Book 15 | Sifting Through The Ashes by Tufo Mark

Author:Tufo, Mark [Tufo, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: DevilDog Press
Published: 2020-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Mike Journal Entry 9

Ritzville was everything you’d expect from a small town, which wasn’t much. The center of town was lined with low buildings, most in the two to three-story range. It would have been slightly whimsical, if not for the feeling of desolation. Now it was just a sad reminder of the way things used to be. Hadn’t seen anything yet large enough to transport a group of people, and now that we were at the so-called hub, the odds of stumbling upon a vehicle were diminishing rapidly. The longer this took, the more likely something shitty happened; we’d both been thinking this in regards to the personnel left behind, not ourselves. That changed pretty quickly. I pulled up short when I saw a lone figure standing in the middle of the road towards the edge of town. It was still, quiet, not so much as a slight stirring, yet her hair and dress were windswept, flowing in a storm of her own making. The scenery was monochromatic under the shine of the moon, except for the woman’s hair that shown a brilliant, fiery red.

“Payne.” I gripped my rifle tight at the uttering of her name.

“What’s up?” Charlie had been looking to the windows of some of the shops for any threats when the only one that we needed to be concerned about was directly in front of us. I reached a hand out and gripped his shoulder.

“Stop,” I told him. He followed my gaze to look upon what I was.

During normal times, a lone person against two armed soldiers is not a cause for great concern. These were far from normal times.

“She armed?”

“In more ways than you can know.”

“You know her?”

“Michael,” she said in a conversational tone. She was over a hundred yards away, and her voice came to us easily enough. “So glad to see you.”

“That answers that,” Charlie responded. “Does she want to kill you too?”

“In the worst way possible.”

“Are there any women that don’t?”

I spared a glance his way.

“Does she have tanks at her disposal? Are we walking into a crossfire? And how are we hearing her so clearly?”

It wasn’t that I ignored his questions; it’s just that at the moment, I only had eyes, ears and thinking capacity for her. “Payne, what do you want?” I didn’t shout, I figured whatever voodoo she was doing to talk to us she could most likely use to listen, as well.

“Preferably your soul, but since that’s not likely to happen, I will take your shrieking screams as you fade into the darkness.”

“Bad one-night stand?”

“Charlie, you’re going to want to take this one seriously.”

“Is she alone?”

“Most likely.”

“I don’t see a weapon; what am I supposed to take seriously?”

Much like her voice, Payne projected her image so she was standing directly in front of us. Her beauty would be undeniable if not for the cold, black eyes that she used to gaze upon the world.

“What the fuck?” Charlie stepped back and shouldered his rifle, pointing it straight at the phantom.

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