Zombie Heights by Spike Black

Author:Spike Black
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: High Concept Books
Published: 2022-10-30T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Two elderly zombies stood before me, their faces lopsided, eyes drooping, skin leathery and gray.

Not dissimilar to regular old people, then. But they looked even worse than regular zombies, probably because they’d already been in an advanced state of decay before the infection.

They shuffled forward as a pair, and I froze in horror. Now what?

I pressed up against the back wall as they advanced into the elevator. I cried out, closed my eyes and charged through the gap between them. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself on the landing of the fourteenth floor, with the sound of the elevator doors closing behind me.

I exhaled so hard it felt like I’d bruised my lungs.

Okay. I made it. I’m alive.

All I had to do was go up one level and I’d be at Echo’s apartment.

Nearly there.

Relief shuddered through me and I took a moment before entering the corridor. Once through the double doors I was relieved to find that the hallway wasn’t littered with the corpses of the fallen, and there was no gore or severed body parts in sight.

There wasn’t a sound, in fact. Somehow that silence made me feel even more exposed as I navigated the long hallway, passing the apartment doors that lined both sides. I moved as briskly as my jellied knees would allow.

Faint zombie moans. My heart stopped.

The sounds were approaching. The double doors ahead of me burst open and two zombies entered the hallway, growling at each other.

Any moment now they would look ahead and --

No, it was too late.

They saw me. Their noises ceased.

I halted, feet nailed to the floor.

I didn’t know what to do or where to go. How could I get past them? I backed away but they were approaching fast.

I wondered if I should start walking like a zombie and groaning, with my arms held out in front of me like they did when mimicking zombies in comedy movies.

Instead, I froze. I had no choice in the matter – panic had seized every muscle in my body.

Was this the end? If my life were to flash before my eyes, it would just be a series of interior shots of my apartment. Suddenly I wished I’d done so much more with my life...

I could see from their twisted, rotting faces that this was it. They were going to kill me, and they were going to enjoy every sick moment of it.

They advanced, almost on me now.

I gritted my teeth and braced myself. Swallowed hard.

Goodbye, cruel world.

The zombies just carried on past me as if I wasn’t there.

I blinked in shock. It was as if they didn’t care. Were my brains not tasty enough for them? Or was it that I just naturally looked so much like a zombie anyway that they had thought I was one of their own?

Or maybe they hadn’t even seen me. Maybe zombies had really bad eyesight. I mean, it made sense – I had foggy vision in the mornings and that was after a few hours in the land of nod.

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