DEAD SILENCE by Lopez III Aurelio Rico

Author:Lopez III, Aurelio Rico
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Hunt Press
Published: 2022-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Sheryl shot out of her chair and ran to the door.

“What the fuck was that?” she asked.

Leo pointed at Marshall. “You! Don’t do anything stupid.”

Marshall could have answered that a number of ways but, realizing that all those answers would most probably result in a .40 caliber slug in his head, he chose to remain silent.

“Holy crap!” Sheryl exclaimed, staring out the door. “Leo, you’ve got to see this. That guy just totaled his Chevy.”

The news surprised Marshall. Cole! The kid made it!

“Friend of yours?” Leo asked him.

“Yes. Well, not really. I don’t know the guy that –”

Leo drove a fist into his stomach. Marshall doubled over and fell on his knees.

“Get up, Pops,” Leo said, standing over him. “Let’s go greet this friend of yours.”

Marshall’s legs felt like putty, and they had to help him to the entryway. Sheryl opened the door, and Leo shoved him outside, jabbing the gun against his back, between the shoulder blades.

“No funny stuff,” he warned, “or you’re dead.”

He needn’t have told Marshall that. After being pistol-whipped and punched in the gut, he was not in the mood for anything even remotely classified as “funny.”

Marshall looked across the street and gasped at the scene before him. Even in the dim light, his Chevy appeared like it had gone through a giant grater.

In fact, the car looked like it had been to Hell and back. Its side mirror dangled like an earring, and the doors were all scratched and dented. It was hard to believe that this had been his car. The fender would also need to be replaced, but the strangest thing about the whole scenario was the female zombie crouched on the hood, pounding like crazy on the windshield. The creature was so engrossed with whatever was inside the car, it had no idea the three of them were there.

Marshall glimpsed movement inside the vehicle. Before he could call out and warn Cole, a blast blew out the front windshield, tearing the zombie apart.

***

His ears were ringing, and the air was thick with the smell of cordite. Maybe discharging the shotgun inside the car was not a great idea.

It got the job done, though. Couldn’t argue with results.

The creature lay on the pavement, a tangled mess of limbs and safety glass. Gore pooled beneath its ruined remains.

Cole needed to get back inside the apartment. He tried the door, but it would not budge. Shouldering it did not help either.

Panic coursed through his veins like paralyzing venom. He had to get out fast. Pretty soon, this area of the city would be crawling with the undead.

He checked the locks, realizing he had engaged them when he first got in the car.

Idiot.

Cole unlocked the doors and stumbled into the street. His ears were still ringing. Clinging to the shotgun, he picked himself up and turned to the apartment.

That was when he noticed Marshall. The old man was not alone. Two people were with him – a man and a woman.

Something was not right. Who were they? It was hard to think with all the ringing going on inside his head.

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