Uprising by G.D. Szepanski

Author:G.D. Szepanski [G.D. Szepanski]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greg Szepanski
Published: 2023-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Gwen Quinn

Gwen’s mind didn’t have time to register fear. One second she picked out clothing in the thrift store and the next she laid on her back wrestling with a zombie. Dead eyes stared into hers while its putrid breath filled her nose with the stench of the grave. Her stomach retched and her breakfast threatened to make a surprise reappearance. It lunged teeth first and was more handsy than Gwen’s worst high school date. She fought for her life. Then she heard a scream and knew it came from Helen, but Gwen had her own fight and would be no help. Gwen didn’t want to die today at the hands or teeth of a zombie. She knew Donald leaned on her as much as she leaned on him, and those kids needed her too. Where had Donald gone? Why didn’t he come to her aid?

Gwen’s arms turned to rubber, and the zombie’s teeth closed in on their mark of the tender flesh on her neck. Where had her knife gone to? Right then, she thought she had lost her fight, but then she heard the gunshot. The body she had struggled with moments before went still and became a dead weight in her arms. Gwen rolled out from under the corpse and expected to find even more grave news.

What she discovered surprised her instead. Betty stood in the store's doorway with a pistol in her hands. The fourteen-year-old girl became their savior.

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After the close call with death by the zombie, Gwen knew they had finished their looting of the thrift store. But it had been a blur to her. She operated on automatic pilot. Would she ever adapt to this reality of death around each corner? One disaster after another and any mistake would result in certain death or something much worse. Being a Barista had always been mindless and boring, but she wished to return to her old boring life. She wanted to wake up from this terrible nightmare, warm in her comfortable bed in her tiny bedroom. Gwen felt a bond to both Donald and the kids, and she liked it. A connection to other people had been missing from her old life. The apocalypse finally allowed her to let people into her life.

Donald interrupted her few minutes of quiet contemplation when he stopped the truck again in some random turnoff behind the cover of the forest. It looked like the same place they camped at last night. If they hadn’t driven all this time north, Gwen would assume they had ended up right back where they started their day. He explained how there was a bridge ahead and it is the last obstacle they needed to cross before they reached the border of Maine. He wanted to check out the bridge on foot before they tried to drive over it to make sure there weren’t any surprises waiting there for them. Gwen understood his point since the bridge deck was wide open with no cover as it crossed the river.

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