I Zombie I [Omnibus Edition] by Wallen Jack

Author:Wallen, Jack [Wallen, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Autumnal Press
Published: 2016-12-25T07:00:00+00:00

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The hours passed slowly—slower than I ever remembered time ticking by. I suppose the anticipation of having Jacob back in my arms caused the time dilation. Moments like these made me wish I could jump back in time and have a chat with the good sir, Einstein. He’d argue my situation had nothing to do with dilation. I’d comb his hair, give him a hug, and challenge him to a game of chess.

At least that would pass the time until my baby arrived. If ever I needed a distraction, it was now.

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“You’re listening to WZMB, Zombie Radio. Your personal sound…track, to the end of the world. That was The High Violets and ‘Chinese Letter.’ A shoegazer of a song, if ever I’ve heard one. I spent the better part of the nineties gazing at my scruffy Doc Martens wishing like hell I could muster up the courage to ask out a particularly delightful wallflower who I knew only by the name…Lizzy. She was an odd mixture of goth, librarian, J-pop, and waif. I know, I know…it sounds crazy but it worked. But alas, I never took the necessary leap of faith to get me to the other side of that dark and stormy chasm.

“Speaking of leaps of faith—let’s talk about Rip Vanity and the Metal Meltdown known only as Arise. What looked as if it would be the Woodstock for the new world order turned into a nightmare of tragic proportions. Of course, the Zero Day Collective was behind the disaster. Hopefully, those rat bastards will pay for what they’ve done. But before the barrage of bullets strafed the flesh of the living audience, before the undead horde attempted to break living bread with one another…there was music. The bands were epic and the music was pure metal; but every note, every lyric paled in comparison to one particular song—what will most likely become the anthem of our age, ‘Cry Zombie Cry,’ by UnSun. Aya and company unleashed that beast for the first time ever during the festival, and WZMB was one of the only stations to get a direct feed of the song. And so, for the first time ever, I want to premier for the Zombie Radio Nation a song written for Bethany Nitshimi and the rest of the survivors of the Mengele Virus, UnSun’s ‘Cry Zombie Cry.’”

Hearing the song again had the same effect on me as it did when Aya belted out the lyrics on stage. This time, however, there was the added air of pride. I never thought I would see the day that a song was written for me. I closed my eyes to get lost within the warp and weft of the song. The notes and the lyrics danced behind my eyelids and over my eardrums. I could have remained here forever, letting the music wash over my body and my soul.

In the split second of silence between the last fading note of the song and the Kirk-like rhythms of the Zombie Radio DJ, a sound tickled my heart.

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