Chicago Fell First: A Zombie Novel by Smith Aaron

Author:Smith, Aaron [Smith, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Buzz Books USA
Published: 2013-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

Danielle and Claire had been stopped four times in their first ten minutes of driving, either by the army or by the police. On each occasion they had been asked where they were going, as if any sane person would be heading anywhere but out of the city. Each time it had been the sight of Brandon in the back seat that had prompted the men at the checkpoints to give them the go ahead to proceed. “Get that kid out of here,” the sergeant at the fourth stop said, “and good luck.”

For those first ten minutes, they had seen dozens of police and military, on foot and in vehicles, but none of the walking semi-dead, the “zombies,” as every witness interviewed on the news seemed to be calling them. Danielle was glad for that and hoped it would stay that way. Claire was mostly silent, though at one point, Danielle heard her mumbling and realized she was praying. Brandon, seeming to have pushed his grief aside for the time being, anxiously turned his head back and forth, looking out the window for any sign of the creatures that had infested the city, as if they were on a grand adventure and not a run for their lives. Danielle was glad children tend to see the world that way. It was making her life easier for the moment.

They drove through a section of the city where nothing was happening; no military activity, no police presence, and, most importantly, no visible violence. Danielle knew there would be roadblocks when they reached the perimeter of the city. She hoped the route would remain clear until then.

Three blocks later, Danielle applied pressure to the brake pedal, just enough to slow down slightly. There were people up ahead. Claire, feeling the slowing of the car, looked up, saw the figures in the street and mumbled, “Shit.”

The car slowly rolled ahead. There were seven of them, all dressed in fatigues. “It’s the army!” Brandon observed from the back seat. One of the green-clad men turned toward the oncoming vehicle. Danielle pulled to a stop. Claire, thinking the soldier was going to ask where they were headed and if they were injured, began to roll down the window.

“Claire, wait!” Danielle said as the glass panel began to slide down into the door.

Time seemed to slow down from Danielle’s point of view. The window dropped all the way. The hands of the Empty One in the green uniform reached into the car. Claire screamed, piercing and shrill. Then came the pulling, the terrible tug, backed by great strength and a tremendous lust to consume. Danielle watched, frozen and horrified, as the laws of physics seemed to bend before her eyes. She would have thought it impossible for a human body, an adult one at least, to fit through the small square of space made by opening a car window. But it happened. Claire’s head went out first, followed by the shoulders that had been grasped by those terrible hands, then the trunk of her body, and finally her flailing, kicking, struggling legs.

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