Joe VS The Zombies by Verily Harden

Author:Verily Harden
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: love and sex in the apocalypse
Publisher: Fox Moon Books
Published: 2017-02-16T06:00:00+00:00

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I kept a close eye on the news while I was putting away the last load of stuff from Costco. I’d made a point to get in a different lane the next two times I went, though I couldn’t avoid the look Karin gave me when she saw me back.

It made me feel bad, that she might finally have lost whatever nugget of interest she might have had in me, but when it came down to it, I was a survivor. Or hoped to be, at any rate. She could decide what she wanted, and if that meant she didn’t make it, well. I’d be sad, and if I could admit it to myself, really heartbroken. But there was nothing I could realistically do about it.

Over the past couple of years, I’d tried to help her learn about stuff, even simple disaster prep, but she would always say it was the government’s job to help the citizens. She didn’t seem to get what happened with Katrina and Rita and other disasters showed the government couldn’t save us. Or wouldn’t, if you believed some of the conspiracy theories out there.

All I knew was what I’d seen myself. People suffered and died waiting for someone else to save them. I wasn’t going to do that, and if I could save Karin, I would. But Joe Cooper was Numero Uno.

The all news channel I was watching while I finished eating up some of the last frozen stuff I had in the freezer had started talking more about the reports of weird activity around the world. It was happening everywhere now, even smaller cities in the US. I knew it wouldn’t be long before it was here.

I felt a brief twinge of regret about Karin, but I shook it off. She’d made her choice clear enough. She could be with me, or take her chances with the zombies.

I was going to have to accept it. But my heart didn’t seem to want to let go. I knew I’d been in love with her for a while now, but it was always something that had seemed unreal and impossible to pursue. Karin liked me well enough, I guess, but I wasn’t her type. She liked the buff, work out hard and play hard type of man, and while I was in good shape, I wasn’t bad boy enough.

The dishes were washed and put away when I finally turned the TV off and went to bed. From my window, as I changed into a pair of sweats to sleep in, I could see the glow of a television set in what I knew to be Karin’s bed room. She was probably watching some soppy romantic comedy movie, I figured. She probably was alone, because most of her dates didn’t seem to be the romcom type.

After such an exhausting day—considering how unused I was to so much physical labor—it wasn’t surprising that all thoughts of the unobtainable girl next door and the looming zombie apocalypse fled from my brain and I dropped into a heavy, dreamless sleep.

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