Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies by Scott M. Baker

Author:Scott M. Baker [Baker, Scott M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Schattenseite Books
Published: 2020-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

After a ten-minute walk that led her past the U.S.S. Constitution, Alissa emerged onto Chelsea Street. Ahead of her were the approaches to the Tobin Bridge. The top span carried the traffic from the North Shore across the bridge into the city; one hundred feet to her left, the highway went underground, passing beneath the local neighborhoods and emerging near I-93. Directly in front of her, the underground highway from the city emerged from its tunnel and connected with the lower span leading out of the city. Once on the bridge, Alissa would be across the Mystic River within a half hour and back in Nahant a few hours after that. Experiencing an optimism she had not felt since the outbreak ravaged the hospital, she crossed to the bridge.

Alissa’s optimism drained away when she reached the chain-link fence imbedded into the cement guardrail along the lower span. All three lanes were jammed with cars and trucks, stretching from well into the tunnel to as far as she could see along the span. Most had been abandoned. A flow of pedestrians walked between the vehicles, not heading north out of the city but back toward the tunnel. Alissa shook the fence and called out to attract someone’s attention.

“What’s going on?”

An older gentleman with greying hair sticking out from under a Red Sox baseball saw her. “The shit’s hitting the fan lady. What do you think’s going on?”

“I mean, why aren’t you heading out of the city?”

“Because the cops are being fucking assholes,” answered a teenager several yards behind the older gentleman who trudged along with the others, holding his girlfriend’s hand. “They won’t let anyone of the city. Keep spouting off about containing the spread of the infection, whatever that bullshit means.”

Alissa did not bother clarifying. “There’s hundreds of you. Why didn’t you just push past them?”

“Be my guest.” The teenager chuckled derisively. “There’s thirty or forty Staties up there with assault rifles, clubs, tear gas, and dogs. The first ones who tried to push through were roughed up pretty bad.”

“He’s right,” agreed the older gentleman. “We’re all stuck here until the police say otherwise.”

Fuck that, Alissa thought. I’m getting out of here while I can.

Stepping back several feet from the guardrail, she scanned the upper level. Like on the one below it, the traffic extended from deep inside the tunnel along the span as far as she could see. And, like on the lower level, everyone had abandoned their vehicles and were on foot. Except they were heading away from Boston and back toward the North Shore. A handful of State Troopers stood among them, motioning to proceed and making sure no stragglers were left behind. The police up here had enough common sense to realize that since these people had not been in Boston, they were not contagious, and were allowing them to make it to safety. She had found her way out of the city, but she had to move fast.

The retaining wall for the upper level stood ten feet in height.

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