battle windshield. “Hope you topped off the windshield wiper fluid.” The sergeant needled a green tinged Murphy.
Time had slowed for Murphy. He watched a piece of hot brass as it lazily floated down and stuck to an eyeball of a middle aged zombie woman. The contact of the hot metal made her eye explode sending viscous fluid shooting out dislodging the offending ejecta. Murphy could not figure out how the sergeant even knew where he was going. Gore and blood covered every available port. It was like they were traveling within the innards of some giant beast of mythical proportions.
The smell of fire began to overtake the smell of zombies. ‘Must be getting close.’ Murphy thought. He felt the lunge of the transport as the sergeant decided that more speed was needed.
Brendon was having severe difficulty controlling his extremities. Tremors coursed through him; compounding the difficulty was the uneven ground caused by zombie bodies that he was traversing over. “Too late, too late, too late,” became his mantra. His legs were spasming just as the truck ahead of him sped up. Brendon had to will his leg to his bidding before he fell behind and without the grace of a machine gun hacking a trail he would be cut off quickly.
He scooted down on the seat, the movement forcing his leg down onto the accelerator. Control came back slowly and with difficulty. He was able to press the brake on his own as he pulled up to what little remained of Carol’s house.
“ All aboard!” He said as he spotted, Mike, BT and Jen. His heart lifted at the sight of them.
“ Glad to see you boy!” BT shouted from the truck bed. Brendon agreed.
Brendon heard some commotion in the back, but cognitive functioning was becoming increasingly hard to do. “I’m me!” He yelled.
“ Yes and soon you will be mine.” A cold voice burrowed out of the depths of his mind.
“ NICOLE!” He screamed, his second to last sane thought. The last being when he shoved the Walther 9mm under his jaw and double tapped his disease addled brain.
CHAPTER ELEVEN - JOURNAL ENTRY 5 -
“ You’re Catholic right?” BT asked me.
I was hesitant to answer, religious conversations rarely go well, most in fact end in Holy Wars. Don’t believe me? If there are still any left, find a Muslim and ask him or her what they think of Christianity. That will be a short conversation revolving around the blade of a knife being inserted into various parts of your being.
“ Yeah why?” I answered reluctantly.
“ That’s the religion where you go up to the Priest and get wine and bread right?”
“ Where are you going with this?”
“ Just answer the question.”
“ Yes, the congregation receives the Eucharist, the representation of the Body and Blood of Christ.”
“ That’s what I thought.”
“ You just needed a semantics lesson then?”
“ Not really, but I did wonder something.” He paused. I didn’t prod he was up to something I could tell by the way he was smiling at me, like a jungle cat getting ready to pounce. He was looking at me waiting for a reply. Apparently it would be funnier if I prompted him.
“ Fine BT, what are you wondering?” The words practically oozed scorn, he didn’t care.
“ How did you do it?”
I instantly knew what he was talking about, but I’d be damned if I was going to let him corner me that quick. “BT I’m tired and I’m in pain, I just want to go to sleep.”
“ Bullshit!” He said sitting up. “You know what I’m talking about, spill it.”
“ Is this really necessary?”
“ I don’t have anything better going on right now. Not unless they’re hiding Naomi Campbell somewhere on this base.”
“ I figured you for more of a Halle Berry type.”
“ Don’t change the subject, but yeah she’s third.”
“ Who the hell is second?”
“ Man, don’t laugh, I’ve got this thing for…oh, you sneaky bastard you almost got me.”
“ I tried. Alright if you must know I bought a carton of
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