Savage World: A Zombie Horror Duology by Iain Rob Wright

Author:Iain Rob Wright [Wright, Iain Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ulcerated Press
Published: 2023-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

ANNA

Anna heard the moans followed by the rattling of the pier’s main gate. It was not unusual to find dead men on the pier’s walkway, but it was something that always needed dealing with. If enough of the dead gathered together then they might manage to bring the gate down beneath their sheer weight. Anna had seen what the collective strength of the dead could do several times over the last year. They’re like a force of nature when they group together.

Anna was tucked up in her sleeping bag, re-reading a paperback, when she saw members of the pier race by the window of the gift shop in which she lived. It wasn’t a reason for great concern, but she put on her jacket and followed after them, wanting to see what the fuss was. She joined up with them at the gate where a dead man and woman were thudding against the iron bars. A light rain had begun falling and a wind whistled in from the sea. Seagulls circled in the air, as they always did around the dead.

“Why aren’t we staying out the way?” Anna frowned. When dead people arrived at the gate, the common thing to do was to lay low and wait for them to lope away. More often than not, they did so within the hour.

“We can’t afford to leave them at the gate,” Alistair informed her. “Garfield and the others are coming in. We have to clear the way.”

Anna studied the two zombies on the other side of the wrought iron bars and felt confused. The female was little more than a skeleton, with a waistline she probably would have killed for in life. Hell, I would kill for it. Her entire stomach had rotted away and the crusted remains of her lungs had fused to her spine. The man beside the dead woman was a boxer, still donning his ring shorts and gloves. Once upon a time it may have been comical to see the sportsman in full gear, but the people at the pier were all used to the oddities of the dead and long past paying any notice. Previously the gate had been host to a dead policeman, several old-aged-pensioners, a Chinese chef in full kitchen whites, and once they even had a ghoulish clown trying to get in at them. There was no humour to be found in the dead. The boxer was just another corpse with a story untold.

“There’s only two of them,” said Anna, bemused. “Garfield can handle two zombies easily enough.”

“He has somebody injured with him,” Alistair said.

“How do you know that?”

“Because I saw him,” said little Poppy who was standing in the gap between the Sea Grill restaurant and the pier’s block of toilets. She looked lost in her oversized cardigan.

Anna took the child to one side. “Was it Garfield who was hurt?”

Poppy shook her head. Two long blonde plaits swung back and forth behind her and Anna suddenly resented her own lank brown locks. “No, it was somebody else,” said the girl.

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