Zombie Revolution by K Bartholomew

Author:K Bartholomew [Bartholomew, K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-18T06:00:00+00:00

1

I squeezed her hand but as we rounded the corner more of them were staggering down Deansgate, clattering into lampposts and rubbish bins like blind men.

We had time though, so we took the chance to catch our breath. Neither of us were high school athletes, every second of rest counted. We needed to think, to gather our thoughts, to make a plan.

It was chaos.

And it had all happened so fast.

Nobody knew what was happening because as of this moment there were still many who didn't know. They were easy to spot because they were the ones you saw getting dragged to the floor before being consumed.

All I'd been able to do was grab who was most important and run. So I did.

Across the street, what could only be described as a deranged man chased pigeons with outstretched arms. He glared with lust at his prey, so slow and dopey he didn't stand a chance yet continued regardless. Beyond him two elderly women fought over the entrails of what appeared to be a teenage boy. Beside them a bicycle and some newspapers were discarded and I had the strange mental image of the two old women pushing the young lad off the bike to get at him.

We looked about us, trying to decide the best route to take through the city, where we should go next. Nowhere appeared safe, so it would be a matter of choosing the least dangerous option. I had to protect Alice, I owed it to her after all.

We jogged down Deansgate as distant shouting resonated above all else, like you were a mile from a packed football stadium and somebody had just hit the bar. It was loud and mixed with tyres screeching, horns blaring, the occasional crashing and it travelled long distances. Trust my luck, but when the city loses its mind, I find myself on the busiest shopping street in Manchester and all while trying to protect Alice.

A car careened into the back of a bus and the air bag exploded in the driver’s face, filling the interior of the vehicle with a white powder. I didn't have time, but I looked anyway as the driver stared back at us, his mouth moving like a fish through a gold fish bowl. He was trying to get to us. The empty unfocused glare in his eyes told us not everything was right in his world. He strained harder against the seat belt as his mouth increased in intensity, gnashing down onto air with sheer hatred. Thankfully he didn't notice he was buckled in and probably couldn't figure out how to unbuckle himself if he did.

"Don't worry, just stay close. I won't let anybody hurt you.”

"This is getting really scary now." Alice said and I had to admit, I was pretty damned scared too.

"Looks like we'll have to get to my house on foot, can't risk taking the buses."

As soon as I said that, screams rang from inside the same bus the car had just slammed into.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.