POW! (Book 1): The Zombie Days by Wonder Peter

Author:Wonder, Peter [Wonder, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Burning Willow Press, LLC
Published: 2016-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Red.

It's the all too familiar color of blood. It's the color of emotions like love, and hate, and anger. It’s the color of the wine that flowed so freely in the cups of early civilizations. The color has had such a large impact on humanity that people far more intelligent than I believe it to be the first color ever given a name. Red may even be the first color we were able to pick out from the black and white of our early days as a species. To show you all of the red that has been involved in this story, I would need a river to run red. The blood from a zombie isn't your average blood from getting a paper cut or skinning your knee while playing basketball. Their blood is old and dead. It looks almost black, but it isn’t. It's thick like molasses and smells disgusting . . . and it is absolutely red.

Cliff was the first person in our group to have gone down. No one was a fan of his, but no one wanted this for him. When the person you have to kill is just a faceless, soulless ghoul trying to murder everyone you love, it’s one thing. But I spoke to Cliff. I was rude to Cliff. I felt awful about how Cliff met his end.

"It's not your fault, Peter," Evelyn said, giving me a warm hug. She must have been able to read it in my face that I was going through something.

"I know it's not my fault, but that doesn't mean I feel good about it. He was one of us, part of the group, even if it was only for a very short time. He was going to help us out," I said as I rolled Cliff over to pull the backpack from his shoulders. "I just wish I—I don't know. I haven't seen someone real die in a long time, now. I guess it never gets any easier. I mean, it's not like Cliff and I were close, but . . . ugh. I just want this shit over with."

Kyle stepped up to me and slapped me across the face. "Come on, butthole, there's no time for this girly bullshit. Pull yourself together! We've got a situation here! If there's one loose zombie, there are probably more not too far from us right now. Let's get the fuck out of here before we meet them and we have another casualty to deal with!"

I shook my head and let his words sink in. "Thanks, bro. I needed that. There’s a time and a place, right? Let's go, guys." I swung Cliff’s backpack onto my stomach, as there was already a pack on my back. That little slap from Kyle was exactly what I needed to clear my head and focus on the situation at hand.

As we began walking from Cliff’s final resting place, we heard something from back in the department store.

"I, for one, vote that we skip inspecting that sound and just assume that it's bad for us and we continue on our damn way.

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