The ZPOCALYPTO Book Bundle #1 by Tanpepper Saul

Author:Tanpepper, Saul
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: post-apocalypse, horror, cyberpunk, zombies, walking dead
Publisher: Brinestone Press
Published: 2022-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

That was weeks ago now. How many exactly, I don’t know. I’ve lost count of the days.

Reggie is leaning on me, concentrating his entire body weight on the bandage at my side, as if he’s afraid my guts are going to explode out of me at any moment. He no longer looks so sure of himself.

“I knew this was bad,” he growls. “Right from the start I knew we shouldn’t have come here. That’s what I tried to tell you guys.”

I look up at Kelly on the other side of the glass door — what’s left of him, anyway — and I see now that if anyone was right, it was him. He was right all along. I just wish he’d tried harder to stop us.

I don’t blame either of them, though. I don’t blame anyone. Not myself, not even the asshole who first planted the idea in Reggie’s brain. We each had our own reason for coming. That’s what really drove us to do it. But would we have come if we knew then what we know now? Would we still have agreed to try?

I don’t know. I like to think not.

But then again, I don’t think we really had any choice in it at all.

As I lie here dying, lost somewhere in the middle of Gameland with zombies closing in and wanting nothing more than to feed on those of us still drawing air, the truth finally hits home: It never really mattered what we wanted or didn’t want. Arc Entertainment had this all planned from the very beginning. They wanted us in The Game. That’s why it was so easy for us to break in.

And why getting out has been such a killer.

I slowly reach behind my back, to the cold metal of the gun tucked into my waistband. I’ve got one bullet left. Just one. I know it sounds cliché, but I’ve been saving it for just this moment.

My fingers wrap around the grip; they find the safety and flick it off. They touch the curve of the trigger, test its resistance. Reggie sees the wince on my face as I struggle to pull it free, but he thinks it’s just the last stage of the infection. He hasn’t yet noticed the gun. All he knows is that the disease is spreading, growing, taking over. He knows the agony I’ll soon be going through. He knows the monster I’m about to become. And he also knows what he’ll need to do before that happens.

I cough. “Got any antivenin?” I ask, trying for a little humor. “Might have some in my virtual backpack.”

He smiles a wistful smile and whispers my name.

I draw the gun out and hold it away from me. It’s so damn heavy. They all see it at the same time, though it doesn’t register with any of them right away what I’m about to do with it. Then, all at once, they figure it out, and they start yelling for me to stop.

But I don’t hear them.

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