Medora: A Zombie Novel by Welker Wick

Author:Welker, Wick [Welker, Wick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2014-01-09T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter fifteen

It took several dark moments to realize where she was. There was only darkness in front of her eyes. She stretched her neck forward in some sort of effort to see more light somehow, but there was nothing. Then she looked down and saw the rounded, wooden entrance to the doghouse that she now remembered crawling in. Her muscles ached with an exquisite soreness that felt much worse than the pain she was used to a day after an intense workout. Her mouth felt like a dried out socket with her tongue sticking to the sides of her cheek from lack of moisture.

Ellen remembered the dog she had found and reached out to feel some semblance of comfort from his furry coat but realized that it had left. Managing to turn herself around in the doghouse, she slowly stuck the top of her head out to see any threatening people that might be around. The yard looked relatively innocent except for the entire back fence being knocked to the ground.

Slowly, she crawled out of the doghouse, found the same sprinkler head from before, and sucked long and heavily from it. She was certain that she had never been so thirsty in all her life. After several minutes of drinking, she now felt a little nauseous from all the water in her belly, but she felt ready to move on. Looking at her watch, she realized that only about twenty minutes had passed and she now needed to get to the school and find her daughter. Looking out past the collapsed fence, she saw the same chaotic scene of people, children and cars emerged in a radiating pattern surrounding the school.

She then heard branches breaking behind her and saw three infected people moving towards her with a speed slow enough to let her consider her next move. In her mind’s eye she could see it. She could see a path into the school, so she stood up from the grass with green stains on her skin, and ran straight for the truck bed of a pickup that was a few yards off. From there, she began jumping and sprinting from the trunks and roofs of cars and minivans while people dribbled between the cars beneath her. It felt as if she were hopping from stone to stone in a streambed, using her arms to control her balance. Ignoring the pain in her muscles and joints, she arrived at two metal double doors of the school and threw them open, wincing from the pain in her shoulder.

The double metal doors closed behind her. She wanted to take the gun from her purse but felt too ridiculous wielding a gun while walking around an elementary school. At any moment, she felt like she would go into the gym and see all the parents and children for a Parent-Teacher Conference and she couldn’t possibly come around the corner and point a gun at all of them. She decided she would just rest her hand on the gun inside her purse.

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