Zombies Don't Ride Motorcycles by ML Pahl

Author:ML Pahl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: zombies, apocalypse, dark fantasy, apocalyptic, survival, dystopian

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Byron looked up from his musings to see the little girl standing in front of him. She held a thin package just tucked under her arm. She bit her lip trying desperately to contain her excitement.

“Look what I found.”

She produced the box with both hands, thrusting it in the air. The contents rattled with the motion. Byron raised a questioning eyebrow.

“See. We can play. It will pass the time, while Jace gets better.”

She shifted the box up to display its selling point. Emblazoned across the top was one simple word. Chess.

“What makes you th-th-think I even know how to play?”

Fayte raised a finger to her lips. “Shh. Secrets.”

This forced him to smile. This girl was intuitive beyond reason. Of course, he knew how to play. He could play very well. He could not remember the last time he had partaken in the game, but he could remember championship style moves. He could think 5 to 6 moves in advance. He was just not sure where he had picked up these skills. Byron just knew he had them. This girl did not stand a chance. Maybe he should go easy on her.

Before he could attempt to offer her any assistance, she popped the seal on the box and began setting everything up. She knew exactly where each of the pieces went, even going so far as the set up Byron’s side.

“White or Black?”

“White,” he answered, realizing too late that she had already shifted the white half to his side.

This gave him the option of first move. He began with his pawns, attempting to break loose his powerful rook.

“This is one of my favorite’s games to play,” Fayte admitted. She began moving pawns of her own. The game started off innocently enough.

Byron realized she was positioning to get some of her own pawns out of the way, putting a couple of them in squares to force Byron to take them. He decided in that moment to not go so easy on her. He took one of her pawns out of the game, but chose to ignore the second one. Might as well make her work for it. He refused to be predictable.

At this Fayte, made a bit of a face, knitting her eyebrows.

“Huh,” was all she could muster. This was not going to be the beat down she expected. She had not had a decent chess partner in what felt like forever. Even her father fell to her superior leveraging of pieces only after a few games. There was so much more to Byron than just the stuttering fool he appeared to be. So much the better. She had already fallen for him as the father figure she was in such desperate need of.

She had already planned her next four moves, but every move Byron took, shattered that expectation and she had to reformulate. This peeved her to no end, but beneath it all excited her as well. Not only did she have to consider the obvious move, she was forced to contemplate what other motives Byron was toying around with in his head.

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