Zombie Dog by Clare Hutton

Author:Clare Hutton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

By dinnertime, Becky was a mess. She couldn’t stop remembering the horrible moment when she had been convinced that the zombie had bitten Bear, that he was a zombie, too. That her darling, sweet dog had become a monster, and that he was after her. Just the thought of it made Becky’s chest feel hollow and her eyes sting.

And what if the zombie had been right there, lurking in the bushes? They didn’t really know that zombies only came out at night. It wasn’t just Bear. They were all in danger. If the zombie was real — and, even though it was almost impossible to believe, a deep-inside part of Becky was sure it was true — any of them could be bitten and turned into a zombie as well. Her mom and dad, Jake, Nate, Becky herself, all the neighbors, any of them could be attacked. Becky swallowed. She and Nate were the only ones who knew.

It was trash night, and when Becky wheeled out the recycling bin, a light, dismal rain was falling and thunder rumbled in the distance. Dragging the cans to the curb, Becky glanced up at the sky and then looked nervously around. Was the zombie causing this weather?

Becky frowned, a thought niggling at the back of her mind. She remembered thunder crashing the week before as she pulled Bear into the house, and again, out of a sky that had been blue a second before, when Bear ran into the fence between their house and the house next door.

It was almost like the zombie was angry with Bear.

But why would it be? What could Bear have done to upset a zombie?

As she dragged the can the rest of the way to the curb, Becky was thinking so hard that she was barely aware of how much stronger the rotting smell that had hung around all day was getting. When she reached the curb, though, it flooded her senses so much that she had to let go of the can to cough and cover her face with her hands. It was heavy and foul, even worse than it had been the night before.

Suddenly, from the sidewalk beside her came a thick, wet-sounding snarl.

A small animal was coming toward her slowly, its green eyes shining unnaturally in the glow from the streetlights. She realized that it was dragging its left hind leg behind it, moving painfully. Becky froze as the creature came closer to her, stepping into the light.

Then she blinked in shock. It was a Chihuahua.

But not a normal Chihuahua. As it came closer still, its flashing green eyes fixed on her, Becky saw that its fur was matted and full of dirt. One ear hung off at a funny angle, seeming to be attached only by a long strip of ragged flesh. It crept toward her, its small body vibrating with that same curiously wet snarl. The smell got even worse, and Becky gagged and stumbled backward.

Becky was sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that this was a zombie Chihuahua.

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