Plague of the Undead by McKinney Joe

Author:McKinney, Joe [McKinney, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: zombies
Publisher: Pinnacle
Published: 2014-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

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“Jacob, wake up!”

Rough hands shook him from his sleep.

“Jacob, come on, buddy. We got problems.”

Jacob scrambled to his feet. He’d been in deep sleep, but he was wide-awake in an instant. Nick had his rifle in his hand, clutching it by the breach. He had Jacob’s in the other hand, waiting for him to take it.

“What’s going on?”

“Zombies,” he said. “I counted eight.”

“The herd?” Jacob said. He couldn’t believe they’d caught up with them already.

“I don’t think so,” Nick answered. “They were coming at us from due west, probably from the town. The ones I saw were looking pretty bad, like they were older.”

Jacob nodded and took his rifle. He tried to move quietly, but the house was old and the floorboards creaked beneath his feet, even when he tried to put his feet down slowly and deliberately.

Where the hall connected to the living room he hesitated. It was still dark, an hour at least till sunup, and the house was steeped in darkness. But from somewhere ahead of him he could hear feet sliding on the wooden floor, and wood groaning beneath an unfamiliar weight.

Jacob craned his head around the corner. Halfway across the living room was a dead man, badly decomposed, his clothes rotted into his skin and his face little more than strips of dark flesh hanging from dull yellow bone. He was stumbling toward the hallway. Behind him, another dark form was climbing through the empty window.

Jacob turned to Nick and signed what he’d just seen. Then he swung his rifle around so that he could use it as a club, took a breath, and charged around the corner.

The first dead man was faster than he should have been. Decomposition as bad as his should have slowed the muscles considerably. No sooner had Jacob rounded the corner but the man was on him, hands up and clutching for him. Jacob reacted quickly though. He brought his rifle down on the man’s face with enough force to snap the man’s back, breaking the neck. The zombie stopped, head staring at the ceiling, but didn’t fall. He just swayed there on his feet, unable to move.

Jacob swept the zombie’s legs with a single kick, and when the thing lowered its arms, he drove the rifle down again three more times, crushing its skull. The second zombie had fallen heavily to the floor after coming through the window, and Jacob was able to smash his head to a pulp before he could regain his feet.

Looking through the window, Jacob could see three, no, four others coming up the slope of the lawn.

At the same time, hands slapped against the front door.

From somewhere in the back of the house, they heard a scream.

Both men went running. Chelsea was standing in the hall in bare feet, a blanket pulled over her shoulders.

Nick took hold of her as Jacob kicked in the door to Kelly’s room. Kelly was on her back on the far side of the room, using an upturned wooden chair to hold a zombie at bay.

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