Left Alive 1 by Jeremy Laszlo

Author:Jeremy Laszlo [Laszlo, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: death, zombies, zombie, undead, postapocalyptic, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, new series, zombie horror, best selling series, fucking awesome book, new horror series, new science fiction series
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Jason!” the woman screams. All I see is the infinite black expanse of death down that barrel of the revolver that she’s holding. It’s a black hole for my attention, sucking all my thoughts down into its dark depths. I am about to die. It’s the only thing I can think of. Whoever Jason is, whoever this woman is, why they’re here, none of it makes a bit of a difference to the undeniable fact that I am about to die. I don’t think about Lexi or Val. I don’t think about Tiffany. I don’t even think about how this world has gone to hell and there was no hope really anyways. All I think about is that there is a gun pointed right at me and that I’m about to die.

Death is a strange and horrifying thing. It’s what inevitably comes for us all and I remember that once I thought I didn’t fear death, but then I got married, and then I had children. When you have something precious to lose, then death becomes far more horrifying. Sure, I bought life insurance and wrote up a will, but in the end, I didn’t want to die. I wanted to live forever, or just long enough to see that my girls are safe. I want to run. I want to be like one of those superheroes who can move faster than a speeding bullet and I want to zoom out of here with the blink of an eye. I want to be standing anywhere but here. The woman’s hand is shaking. God, what if she takes off an ear, or only wounds me? What happens if she wounds me and I go running and slink back to the second farmhouse only to die of an infection and lead poisoning?

“Jason,” she screams again.

She holds the revolver with both hands, making a cautious, inching step toward the body of the man I’m assuming is Jason. I keep still, looking down that wavering barrel with cold certainty that this is the end. No more questions. She’s going to see that he’s dead and she’s going to kill me in a fit of vengeful rage. She takes another step toward the dead man. I wonder why he’d given her the revolver. Wouldn’t it have been more prudent to shoot me the moment I opened the cellar doors? Kill me and get rid of all the risk that fighting brought with it? Maybe he wanted her to keep it in case there were others and that might be their only gun. Probably is. Why else would she have it and he’d come out with just a crowbar? Maybe they expected more than just me. I don’t know.

She is standing over him now and I feel dunked into a pool of relief as she lowers the pistol and stares at the remains of Jason. I gutted him. I did what I had to and she is staring at the corpse with a blank, vacant gaze that tells me nothing.

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