White Ash on Bone: A Zombie Novel by Jason Campagna

Author:Jason Campagna [Campagna, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Officer Bill Eason had moved to Pittsburgh five years ago to take a job with the city police. It was his first job in law enforcement, and every stop made his heart pound. Eason didn’t have a wife or kid to support, so he spent all his energy on the job. After a couple of months, he adjusted to the role and earned the respect of his fellow officers.

His particular beat was the North Side of Pittsburgh, which had major drug problems. Eason worked with some area residents to create a neighborhood watch program. He encouraged the adults of the community to spend an hour a night sitting on their porches. They would take notes if they saw something amiss. For his part, Eason would stop by the volunteer’s homes once every couple of weeks to chat for a bit and make sure everything was alright. The first 6 months of the program led to 132 arrests and 90 convictions. In the second 6 months, the arrest rate dropped to 20, this worried Eason at first, but it caught the attention of several special investigation units. His neighborhood watch had earned a reputation with drug dealers. They no longer wanted to push their product in the area.

Eason won a citation from the Mayor’s office. He won the Outstanding Officer of the Year award. He got promoted and was assigned to expand his program to other troubled areas of the city.

That was all over now.

The past 15 hours made Eason feel like a rookie cop again. He was called in on his day off because of what he thought was civil unrest in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. Within a couple of hours, everything he thought he knew about the world abruptly changed. They lost half of the city’s finest before he could even report in.

Eason sat in his squad car gasping for breath. He had just run several city blocks to make it back to his vehicle. A woman ran by his car crying as she fled on foot, her breath was visible in the first morning chill of the year. Eason held his 9mm service pistol in his hand and closed his eyes. The metal end the barrel felt cold on his shaved head.

His radio crackled with reports from all over the city. Downtown Pittsburgh was fairly quiet as very few residencies were located there. Oakland on the other hand housed a number of intersecting universities including the University of Pittsburgh. By the time Eason arrived at the rally point in Oakland, they’d figured out you had to shoot them in the head.

They thought they had the dorms locked down but injured kids died and then spread the carnage inside after they came back. Hundreds of zombies swarmed over Oakland tearing into anything that moved. By midnight, hundreds of dead turned into thousands.

Eason never imagined he would have to shoot kids. He could still picture them tearing at each other. One minute he was putting down the dead and then there were too many to deal with.

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