Jeffrey McElyea's Zombie Compilation by Jeffrey McElyea

Author:Jeffrey McElyea
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: zombies
Published: 2019-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

25 Miles

Copyright 2019 Jeffrey McElyea. All Rights Reserved.

25 Miles

Jeffrey McElyea

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Wade was remorseful after pushing through and trampling over numerous people to reach safety on the plane.

“So many left behind,” he thought as the plane gained altitude. “My entire family and all of my friends are gone.”

One by one, Wade had watched his friends and loved ones die. Most friends were killed during the initial outbreak. Part of Wade wanted the plane to crash. He desired an end to the suffering. The sorrowful survivor thought of the people being left behind.

The view of the ground hit Wade hard. Large crowds below were doomed. Another surprise shocked him as well as other passengers. Two large planes colliding and exploding were spotted in his peripheral vision. The aircraft vibrated but continued its ascent while passengers panicked and stared outside the windows.

Unlike the majority of the plane’s passengers, Wade was not so nervous. He was seldom frightened. Throughout his thirty-eight years, he had only been truly frightened a few times.

Wade was frightened by a man dressed as Santa Claus at age two. His nerves were a wreck after enduring his first automobile accident when he was sixteen. He was scared when his best friend suffered from a fatal gunshot wound during a fire mission that had gone wrong.

He was enlightened on the true meaning of terror upon seeing a crowd of mutilated zombies in his workplace’s parking lot. He regretted not watching television. If he had, he would have known sooner and had additional time to prepare for the worst epidemic to strike the planet.

Wade looked to his left. Three men and one woman tightly clutched their belongings and weapons to their chests. It was obvious the four young adults were a team. After examining their body language, Wade’s mind filled with assumptions.

Wade believed the youngest man was brave but lacked leadership skills and mental fortitude, that he had been somewhat standoffish long before the zombie plague punched the planet. The other two men were close. Wade believed allying himself with them would be difficult yet rewarding. The frightened woman was the unstable man’s wife or girlfriend.

Ahead of Wade were dozens of loners. Groups and teams were formed almost immediately. Optimism was impossible for Wade. He knew most who were on the plane wouldn’t survive. He’d seen it all more than once.

If the starvation or thirst wouldn’t be their deaths, hesitation from fear or poor decision making would. Wade was thankful to be the fourth to last person allowed on the plane. Thousands of people were eaten alive on the runway.

The pilot was the only person Wade knew well. Wade traveled with him and twenty-six others since the emergency broadcasts and rioting commenced. The group’s numbers thinned often. For every four lives lost to the chaos, a mere two would fill the gap.

Nine people traveling with Wade reached the airport. Wade, the pilot and an angry businessman were the luckiest of the unlucky. Wade felt like a rat hiding in a hole. He hated the three weeks of running, hiding, scavenging and waiting.

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