Night of the Living Dead Christian by Matt Mikalatos

Author:Matt Mikalatos
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth, FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure, FICTION / General
ISBN: 9781414365824
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2011-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

I found Lara alone in her house, fully clothed in a pair of jeans and a pink hooded sweatshirt and sitting among the detritus of her ruined living room. Her dark hair framed a face full of dark looks and reflected, I felt certain, even darker thoughts. She didn’t look up when I came in, just poked at the shattered glass and ruined plaster on the ground with a stick. “He got away.”

I shrugged. “At least you’re okay.”

“I’m not okay. I haven’t been okay for a long time. And he always, always gets away. He’s more a force of nature than a man, I think. Did you get Luther to the church?”

“No, he wanted to go to a psychologist first.”

She laughed. “It might help change his behavior, but it won’t change what he is.”

“What do you mean?”

“You’ll see soon enough.”

Robert came into the room and said, “Matt, I was hanging around outside waiting for you, and I’m wondering what I should do.”

“You could help clean up in here, I guess.” Robert grunted and set to work. Culbetron and Hibbs had disappeared again, but I knew Robert would stick around.

Lara actually seemed to show some interest in Robert. “He likes to do whatever you say, doesn’t he?”

I scratched the side of my face and considered this. “He’s half zombie. I guess he’s easily influenced.”

Lara stood up, took my arm, and walked me through the trashed house and out the back door onto her porch. We looked down into the small creek that ran down the middle between her row of houses and the houses from the next neighborhood over. She pulled her hood up over her head, and I realized it was because the sun was shining through the clouds.

“You okay?”

She patted my hand with her own, and I noticed for the first time how cold her hands were. “When you pointed out that I’m still a vampire, Matt, that hurt. Not that I didn’t know already, I’ve always known. Reverend Martin showed me how to destroy that part of me, but it’s not an easy thing. It’s simple, but it’s not easy.” She picked at the splintered wood on the deck. “Vampires aren’t alive and they aren’t dead, and it’s easier to kill them than bring them back to life. I’m still gasping for air.”

I leaned on the rail of the porch and watched the water move down toward the storm drains or wherever it went. “What did he tell you? Reverend Martin?”

She sighed. “It wasn’t just one conversation. We talked for a long time, and you’d be better off hearing it from him. But here’s the thing about vampires. We’re a mockery of God. We’re a purposeful satire of the plan to save humanity from itself. Christians talk about the blood of Jesus being the power of salvation. You know the whole thing, right? God sent his Son to die for us. We’re depraved, messed up, twisted creatures.”

“Sinful.”

“Right. That’s the church word. Sinful. We aren’t hitting the mark of what God desires us to be.

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