A World Reborn (Novella): The Harrowsfield Outbreak by Thompson Chris

Author:Thompson, Chris [Thompson, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2017-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Micky was dead. His eyes were blank and his brains sprayed across the floor. The large exit wound on the other side of his head was causing an even more expanded pool of blood beneath him. He had asked her to make sure the infected didn’t take him. Perhaps that was why he did it; he didn’t think he could keep moving forward, and so he’d decided to go out on his own terms. Or perhaps he had not wanted to endanger Tara any further by forcing her to carry a dying man. He’d lost a lot of blood between here and the market in a short space of time, perhaps this was a kindness in disguise, Tara considered.

A snarl jarred Tara back to alertness. The infected were coming closer, drawn by the blood, the gunshot and her presence. Promising not to squander the chance that Micky had bought her with his life, she grabbed the gun and shoved it securely into her pants as she stood up and started to run. Free of the need to carry Micky’s weight, Tara was able to sprint to the next broken window and head out onto the next street. Briefly, she considered her options; there was a T-junction ahead, left led to more stores and then into a residential area where her home was. Right went roughly back towards the motel, but that way she’d end up looping back into the horde, and that would be suicidal. Directly ahead, the road led straight to the fairground. The residential area had more cover, but yesterday there had been a lot of infected there. As if to prove the point, as she turned her head in that direction, she could see the infected shuffling excitedly towards her. It wasn’t until that moment that she realized she was covered all down her left side in Micky’s blood, so, not only were they being drawn to her visually, but the by the blood she was soaked in. Tara made a quick decision. She started sprinting towards the fairground. She knew her car had been left there, abandoned, when the outbreak began and hoped it was still there. She figured if the snipers had moved in to shoot at her and Micky at the market, the roads might be open. Perhaps, she could escape, Tara dared to hope. She could feel the first sensations of exhaustion creeping into her limbs, and while she wanted to move as quickly as possible, to put as much distance between her and the infected as she could, and between her and the gunmen pursuing her, she feared over exertion. There were cars strewn across the road the further she advanced; the ones closest had crashed - some had overturned and others had slammed into lamp posts or store fronts - while those further back had come to a stop as their drivers has been unable to make their way further down the road, so had simply abandoned them. On the

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