The Earth is cold and the snow has fallen for two years without a hesitation. I find myself forgetting my past and I find that I have very little knowledge of what I am suppose to do on this Earth. On a good day (Few and far between!) I can see all straight, but on a bad day all is as cloudy as the sky…

The humans that are left, are all hidden deep within the Earth and I have made a decision to travel by foot to the Old Empire State building. I realize that as I travel, whatever the evil force is will become stronger and my mind will forget all that I know. So I created a make believe person and a make believe existence. I have created the conditions to be only human and nothing but human. I will only believe that I am human and hence only my enemies will think I am human. I only hope that I can remember in time to save the world against this terrible tragedy…

I wrote my make believe world down and wrote all that I know and need to know sown on paper. I read that paper everyday and read it again and again. I soon will only know what the paper says…

I know that this is what must be and I head North to the old New York City and hope that the Empire State Building is still above ground at the top of it. At least a place that I can get in…

I have to stop the evil that is destroying me and the Earth…

Stryker…

I promised the best for last and here is that story. First I want to say that this story was many years after the last story number 49. This story is the last story that I ever produced and recorded for the diary of short stories. This story is located in the Antarctica. Deep in the center of the coldest place on earth. I went there because I was told that a man had built a home there and that he would be worth talking to…

I have a thousand stories, but they can all wait until I accomplish what has to be done on Earth. Enough of that and you will find out soon what I am talking about…

So I went (Flew on my dragon!) deep into Antarctica and found a man who had built a home deep in the Antarctica…

I walked to the spot that the home was suppose to be and sure enough it was there. It was hard to see as it was buried in the deep snow, but I saw the smoke stack and the front door had been cleared. I walked up to the door and noticed that hanging on the door was a cross made from the branches of the rowan tree and bound with red thread. As stated in a old rhyme I was taught as I grew up:

“Rowan tree, red thread, holds the witches all in dread.”

I knocked on the door and after what seemed an eternity a little old man opened the door.

The little old man who I found out later was named Seth and he tossed a magic spell at me…

Here is what happened for those who want to know…

Seth tells a story,

Hi all who are left on this sad world of Zombies…

I opened the door and since I was sure that only a witch or a warlock in Stryker’s case could have found me and come all the way into the heart of the deep cold. I through a spell of death at him…

I said, “This man needs to be put to rest.” and then I said, ” I shall act as the Angel of Death and cast a command.” then I said, ” Now my child, prepare for a gruesome end!”

Then I slammed the door and started to go back to my book I was reading. I was sure that he was dead and I would deal with his frozen body later. My spells have never failed before and why would I expect them to fail now?

Then as I neared the chair and grabbed my book. Why if someone did not knock again at my door…

I went back and opened the door and actually I never expected to see the same man, I expected to see a new person, who must have come with him. I tossed a spell of blockage up, that was to keep anyone from shooting me or stabbing me, to death. In fact the spell would stop anything, well except Stryker…

He walked into my home and pushed me aside like I was a feather and that is when I saw a huge dragon melting a huge hole in the ice and he disappeared down into the ice to sleep, is what I assumed…

I had not seen a dragon for hundreds of years and I turned to look at Stryker and wondered if I was a dead wizard…

But all that happened was that Stryker introduced himself and took off his coat. Then he acted like nothing happened and asked me kindly to tell a story of what happened with me on the day that the Zombie Virus came to our planet?

Then before I could start, the snow all melted away from the only window that I had on the left of the house and a huge eye of a dragon looked in upon what was going on. It blinked and then after what seemed like a million years to me. The dragon satisfied that I was not going to cause problems left to go back to his new cave he made…

I sat in kind of a shocked mental state and then told this story to Stryker…

I am a wizard, one of the last few wizards left on the earth. I use to live way North near the North Pole, but as all should know the ice at the North Pole melted and there is nothing but ocean there now. Oh it still freezes in the winter, but it is not safe to live on that ice…

The South Pole is virtually unaffected by changes on earth and hence that is where I came to live. I like snow and cold, many call me Old Man Winter…

Once upon a time, when Dragons and Wizards ruled the earth and Reapers where just a fantasy. That time is several billions years ago. The balance of life on Earth was kept by Mother Earth and she was all powerful. We drew our energies from Mother Earth and controlled life to suit her and her wishes…

One day within my beginning life times on Earth, we were hit by a space debris that held within them a creature from deep space. This creature was immature and not grown into what it shall become. In fact it was just like a baby and Mother Earth took it upon herself to nurture and care for this creature…

It was a ruse to destroy Earth and Mother Earth took it “hook line and sinker!” Then in a billion years, this creature transformed and Earth became a battle ground, between good and evil. Everything was split between right and wrong. Nothing was in between nor safe from this fact. Earth was devastated…

The Atlanteans from Atlantis were destroyed  and the Earth started over. It started over as it had done three times before. Except this time, evil beyond imagination was dwelling within the Earths bosom…

Mother Earth no longer had control like she did and her love for her only child that she dreamed that she cared for, was a detriment to her existence on earth. Mother Earth was dying and the creature she had saved and nurtured was growing stronger everyday…

Life went on and life developed again. This time dragons and wizards were almost wiped out, as we supported Mother Earth and the good in life that we remembered from the old days. The creature from space wanted us dead and to survive we hid and disappeared from sight. The rumor is that one day a human will come forth and be the one to stop the creature from space and put Earth back on track. This human will save Mother Earth, but if it does not happen soon. Mother Earth will die, for she is almost depleted of energy…

The final stage of this terrible tragedy is the risen dead of Zombies that has taken over the Earth. Evil has reached all parts of the planet and nothing is being spared. For if you have not noticed, the Earth is getting colder and soon within a few years, the greatest ice age to hit the planet in its history, will start. The planet will be covered in snow thousands of feet deep and nothing will show, but the tallest mountains. Then before it is over, even those mountains will disappear under all the snow and life will be devoid on Earth. Mother Earth’s soul will be consumed by evil and then that evil will travel to the next inhabited planet and start again. That evil only lives to consume the soul of a planet…

I will tell you what I know and that is this…

The evil lives in the basement of the Empire State Building, within New York City. It has been put there by choice and by very evil men who think they can use it to rule the world. That of course is what it wants these men to think and after they moved the creature to the spot it desires and it rests and gathers the appropriate energy needed to do what it has to do. Then such an ice age will commence as the world has never seen…

It will be called “Dark Futurology of Earth” and even the gods will have no idea who they are and what they are! For the gods will only be human in mind and nothing more. It is a terrible tragedy and I feel nothing will stop it…

I am tired and now will sleep…

Seth the Wizard…

I watched as Seth went to sleep and as I sat there he died in his sleep. The cold became so strong that even I shivered and I heard my Dragon roar and I rushed outside to find it dead from some unknown attacker. It had died so fast that it never knew what hit it…

I live for now, but only because I am a god and it seems that soon that may all go away also…

I am very seriously worried now about the Earth. Even I could not stop this creature and even I had no idea that this creature existed on the planet. Me – a Reaper God!

Stryker…

I wandered into Merry Ole England at one point in my escapades touring the planet. I came upon an huge open field that looked like it was a wheat field. It was flat and in the middle of this field was a huge castle being built…

I started to walk toward the castle and was deep in thoughts about why someone would build a castle in a field, when there was so many wonderful hills to build one on and defend better. My thoughts were interrupted as up rode a knight in shining armor, on a white horse. He had a sword and a lance…

I recognized his sword it was a Vorpal swords. The Vorpal sword is known for their uncanny ability to sever heads, as compared to swords of sharpness, which merely cut off arms or legs. It stirred my interest even more as that sword is from the underworld…

I thought that would be a good thing against Zombies…

I looked at the rider and all I saw was a full suited armored guy with his faceplate down. He say and watched me and then said, “Aren’t you scared?”

I ignored him and started to walk on by him. I decided that looney’s were not interesting and the castle was interesting. I also figured that he was something to do with the castle anyway…

This seemed to irritated him and I heard him decided to charge after I had walked a 100 yards or so…

I spun with my sword drawn and caught the lance as it neared my body. The sword split the lance like peeling a strip of celery off to eat the stringy strip that you just cut. It just curled in a beautiful pattern…

Then I told the horse to stop and as the horse stood there and ignored the commands of his owner. I smacked him off the horse and flat to his back with a very loud clang of steel armor…

I was not an unforgiving god this day and I cut him down the middle lengthwise and ended his play on life. I turned back to the castle and told the horse to get going. I was interested in the castle…

As I neared the castle, I was confronted by 13 men or horseback. The very middle man rode forth and met me s I crossed the field to look at the castle. He came abreast of me and asked me to, “Explain yourself and have did you bring war to my castle doors?”

I laughed and said, “The only war I bring is if you try to kill me again and give me an excuse to slaughter you all like the dogs you are!”

He was quiet after I said this…

I realized that I was dealing with a group of people that have mentally slipped back into the bygone eras and were living in fantasy land. This was all caused by the Zombie Virus and society dysfunctions as society disbanded and died…

I acted like them and became bold and tough…

He looked out into the field and said, “That was my best man!”

I was silent and started to walk again toward the castle…

He made a grunting noise and then I saw his men put their weapons aside. I knew he had motioned for them to let me by. I guess he figured that if I was bad, I would just kill them all and do what I want anyway. At least if they are nice, I may be on may way before mischief is started by me…

I was actually stunned as I went nearer to the castle, It was a beautiful structure and there was maybe a thousand people all around this complex. Women were tending gardens, men dragging stones to the walls with horses and carts, knights riding horses all around as they guarded the castle outside by day from Zombies and inside at night from thieves…

Everyone stopped what they were doing as I approached and I could feel the eyes in front of me and the 13 riders behind me, watching what I was up to. I saw several guys take a cart and left to get the man I had sliced in half in the field…

Then a loud booming voice came forth from the draw gate as it was let down in front of me. As the gate hit the ground with a swoosh of dust and a thud. A huge mountain of a man stepped onto the draw gate that spanned the mote of water and he bellowed, “Welcome to my castle!”

I then realized that while he was a man, he was also part ogre as we say in fairy tales. He was the first real ogre that I have ever seen on earth and I really had believed that all trolls and ogres where dead…

I then realized hidden well as in camouflaged I saw Trolls and other ogres all around…

Now I am a big human and hold my own size wise with most guys, but these guys were huge and I mean huge. The big man who bellowed at me to be welcomed, introduced himself…

He said, “I am Virgil! Virgil The Conqueror!”

I said, “Glad to meet you!” and held out my hand…

He grabbed it and pulled me to him in a hug! Then he looked at me as he held me at arms length and said, “We must be kind to you! For you are him!”

Then he screamed come and lets rejoice for god has stopped to tell us stories…

I was given a room of splendid makings and told that dinner was in an hour. The apologies were made that the room was so meager and when the castle is finished in a few years it will be better. I cleaned up and laid down a minute to rest. I have not laid on a bed in years…

I was summoned to dinner and was taken into a huge hall of tables. At the head table was Virgil and he had a place next to him for me. We had roast duck, rabbit, quail, beef, chicken and tons of vegetables and breads. This place was rocking with comforts and it was a castle…

I noticed that the center of the castle had a huge hole in the floor. I realized that this castle was located on the entrance to the underworld. The underworld that I amongst all humans and even gods thought was dead. I found it interesting that Reapers such as me have never ventured into these depths. Then I wandered how many other places in the universe are like this?

As if in answer to my thinking’s, Virgil boomed with that load voice, “This is it! The last of the underworld. Most have died after being turned to Zombies and the rest killed by humans as we fought over the years for survival. We have banded together here in a last attempt, to try to make a play at surviving this terrible world, overrun with Zombies!”

I ate in silence and then when the girls cleared the tables and the men gathered around. I was asked to tell three tales of what was happening out there in the rest of the world. I looked at these people and trolls and ogres and said, “I will tell three tales, if you Virgil, tell me what and how all this happened the day the Zombie Virus hit?”

The cheers from the men and woman now, who had come back to listen to stories, was defining and Virgil was forced into telling a tale after I told my three tales…

I found out that three tales by a traveler like me of great importance was a necessity, no more than three, no less than three! For more than three would bring sure death upon the castle walls and less than three would bring starvation and weakness upon the castle walls. So three it was…

I told three tales to the inhabitants of the castle, In fact three tales that are within these pages that you have read. I will let you decide which three tales I told them. They sat on the edges of their very seats listening to the tales I told. The held their breaths as Zombies attacked and they had tears in their eyes as people suffered amongst the Zombie nightmare. Then I was done and they cheered to beat the band. They said while they want more tales of Zombies, they knew that only three could be told and now they looked at their King Virgil. For now it was his turn to tell a tale of how this all started…

Here is Virgil’s tale…

I was minding my own business sitting in my deep dark Cavern that I use to live in. There was a huge explosion and half my home caved in. It seems that someone blew up the human made underground bunker that was put above my head. I never bothered it as they never knew I was here, but they had themselves a regular bomb shelter and it seems that they did a terrible job of building that bomb shelter…

Understand that I am a half human and half ogre. My mother was a beautiful princess and my father was a king ogre who lived under ground and one day they met and fell in love. Love is different to all creatures and they were happy. They had me their only child and I was not able to go to the surface as the humans would kill me if they found me. My dad was not able to travel much to the surface either and many times it was a close call as to he was almost caught several times. My mother finally came to live in the deed dark depths, but the darkness killed her after awhile and my dad and I lived in solitude. Solitude of a King Ogre and his son…

Well I had lived for ever under the surface and this giant hole to the surface was just the ticket to look around and see what was going on. At the worst I thought another world war like the first two, where they blew the hell out of everything in sight…

I climbed up and poked my head out of the hole. I was surprised, as I saw a field of Zombies and these aircraft were flying overhead to bomb them. One by one the aircraft fell from the sky and the craft that fell nearest to me. I saw Zombies getting out of the wreckage. I knew about Zombies, because as we are the underworld and Zombies are part of the underworld…

So I climbed out of the hole and found Zombies attacking me. That was a surprise as Zombies never attack in the underworld. At least not ogres and trolls and such. I smashed Zombie after Zombie and left a trail of crushed Zombies as I walked around and enjoyed the sunshine…

I wandered until I came upon a town of green eyed people. Everyone was green eyed. They were impervious to the Zombie Virus, but a bite would change them. They were fighting with anything they had. They had baseball bats and pitchforks. They stabbed and smashed, but the Zombies kept coming. I helped and realized that even with my help we were doomed. There had to have been a hundred thousand Zombies coming out of the nearest big city, looking for food…

I took my medallion from my neck and tossed it to a young boy. I told him to run to the field that I came from and find the hole in the middle of the field. He understood what field and I said for him to climb down and cry out, “Trolls, Goblins, Ogres and Dragons! Virgil the Conqueror needs you!”

I then told him that the medallion would save hm and they will come and to lead them to us! I said, “Hurry before it is too late!”

He ran like the wind and we fought like demons trying to stay alive against these undead creatures called Zombies…

Just when I thought all was lost. I heard the roar of a dragon and fire shot out and it incinerated Zombies like a marshmallow in a stick. Then an army of underworld, some still squinting as they are not use to the sunlight, came to our rescue. Soon a hundred thousand Zombies were dead and we started a new life…

I realized that he was done and I blinked and said, “Dragons?”

He laughed and pointed at the ceiling. I looked up and realized what I thought was decorations was the most beautiful multicolored creatures in the world. Then as in answering my thoughts. One of them stretched and flipped right side up and landed on the top of a table. He spread his wings and was more beautiful than any peacock ever was and a thousand times more dangerous…

Then I heard a roar outside and as Virgil was laughing to beat the band. He told me that my ride is here and anywhere I want to go, he will take me…

I got up and went to the window of the castle. It was starting to get dark, but I could see clearly a huge dragon was outside. It was black and purple in color. The colors where all swirled together…

I ran outside as I stood in awe and you would have never thought that I could be surprised. Me a Reaper of the Gods…

Virgil laughed and said, “I must apologize for the way we met you and tried to kill you! This dragon is yours and only yours. If he likes you, he will stay with you!” Then Virgil said, “He is unbroken and I must break him! But sometimes they will not break and will eat there owner!”

I looked at Virgil and looked at the Dragon! I said, “When do I start?”

Virgil said, “That is up to you!”

Then I ran at the dragon and before he knew what was happening I grabbed his neck and swung myself upon his back. He screamed and I held on! He then took to the air and screamed at me as he tried to dislodge this unwanted passenger. We disappeared into the falling night sky. The purple in my dragon almost luminescent as we flew…

I hung on and squeezed him as hard as I could. We smashed into trees and went under the surface of lakes and we flew so high in the sky that we both almost passed out from lack of oxygen…

I talked to the dragon and after a few hours he realized that I was no normal human and nor was I an underworld being. Him and I spent a few hours flying some more and after one last attempt to rub me off his back and I stubbornly refused to go anywhere. He settled down and we went back to the castle…

Virgil was still waiting after all this time right outside the castle and he was laughing as he saw us appear. He said after we landed, “You are an amazing man! That creature has killed a hundred men in his thousand years of living! No one has ever ridden him back, much less survive and no one has ever just jumped on his back. If you had waited a second, I would have said that we will help you learn to ride…”

With that the dragon roared and stretched his wings and rubbed his head against me. Then he left to go back to his den. I told him to be here in the morning at sun up and he  blinked at me and I knew he understood…

The morning came and my dragon was right there as he should be and after the goodbyes were said. I jumped on my dragons back and we took off to see the world. I had promised to be back and see how progress was being made on the castle…

I am telling this story from the top of Mt. Everest, we are on top of the world and looking out over what is left.No where is off limits now as I have a new companion to travel with me. We can transverse the globe in minutes instead of walking…

I know, I know! I have powers beyond this anyway, but somehow it is better, when I ride a dragon around the world now…

My dragon is called “Eminence” (High status or of great achievements!)

I have one more story for this book and I have saved the “Best for last…”

Stryker…

It takes all types to make the world go around and it takes all types to survive a Zombie Virus Attack. I found a guy named Weldon and he does not have green eyes and he is still alive because of his favorite thing in the world. A computer…

Here is Weldon’s story…

Hi my name is Weldon,

Let me tell you a story about how the Zombie Virus swept through my little town and what I did about it…

First let me introduce Alice, Greg and Samantha. They live with me and we try to survive in this day and age of Zombie madness…

Lets start with the fact that I always stayed up all night long and had a computer network that was interconnected with the whole world. I started to watch the Zombie Virus at work as it attacked the US first. Oh I am located in Australia if that matters…

At first I was not sure what was happening and then I realized that my connections that I had hacked with the government and science facilities all over the world, where screaming Zombie Virus at my console…

I allowed the few seconds for my system (Which was most likely one of the most powerful computers in the whole world and definable the most powerful computer now in the world!) to search the millions of terabytes of data that I had stored and gathered all the Zombie data that I could. In a matter of a few minutes I had gathered what was necessary for me to stop the spread of the Zombie Virus at my door step. I could not help the world, but I could help me and three people that I knew to survive…

No none of us are green eyed and we all made it. While the virus was ineffective against green eyed people. It was also ineffective against a computer generated repulsive force field of ionic substandard emissions of gold splayed electrons, within a spatial space defined by energy conduced techniques amended to the global warming issues at the time…

Other words: I took my power generators and cranked every kilowatt I could out of them and created a wall of electron magnetic force that whooped the viruses ass, as long as I had power we were safe. Lucky for us the power gave out after the virus used up its initial viral agent and had mutated…

It was a rough two weeks confined within the walls of a magnetic field and the field of course seemed to not bother the dead Zombies as they rose again to search for food. So we had to fight with what we had and try to keep the Zombies out of our space. The battle was hard and we had very little room. The only good thing was that there was only one way in my place and that is all we had to defend…

The magnetic field was not effective in stopping a Zombie, but it had an effect. The Zombie forcing his way into the room we were held up in, would be disorientated by the massive magnetic field, much as a bird is when it gets mixed signals in magnetic impulses as it flies around the globe in its seasonal migrations…

The field also burned off the hair and part of the skin on the Zombies and that was why we had to be careful and not get to near the invisible barrier. It may be magnetic, but I had amped it up to proportions beyond what anyone has done before…

As you see I still have the computer and I have all the data collected until the end of all data ceasing to transmit and now as it starts to transmit again, from the globe. You would be surprised how much data and how long it transmitted before the world computers shut down from lack of power. In fact several government agencies around the world have never had their computers shut down and I am hacked into them. I have created virtual connections through a wireless contact that uses the ability of the atmosphere to carry energy and I have concluded that 95% of the earth is dead with humans…

So after we discovered by my computer and data imputations. That the virus has expelled its dangerous emissions of viral activity and now it is strictly a human to human contact virus, as per a bite or open wound…

We were able to get out and see first hand what was going on. We are located in Australia as I said and population was very low to begin with in our little town. The town was empty except for a few straggling Zombies and we stocked up on food, supplies and weapons. We saw no reason to go anywhere as my computer has told me that nowhere is the same as anywhere…

I drug more generators near to us and I found several tanker trucks full of fuel. We were going to mad max it all the way and we have succeeded…

Alice and Samantha are both expecting children now and Greg and I are building a huge fence around our building. I can’t move all this equipment and I am set up to be the most controlling network when life starts to gather its wits about it. I still have network coverage of over half the world and I am expanding that daily as I am perfecting my wireless ability to find computers with power still attached. I am also working on how to power computers and other electronic equipment from the atmosphere and I think within a year I maybe able to activate equipment all over the world and have them draw power directly from the air…

The future is one of machines that self reproduce, because humans have messed up the world royally…

Time to go and get some work done. I have to be ready IBM DEEP BLUE will call at noon and look to play chess. You know he beats me all the time…

Weldon…

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Like I said I have to watch this guy and his escapades…

Next I am telling a story about a man who has slipped into the olden days and he while a little off his rocker, is surviving and calls himself, “Virgil the Conquer!” He wears a suit of armor and swings a sword he calls ” The Vorpal Sword”…

I came upon a woman named Fredrica and she had a buddy! A very tough buddy and it even made me cautious…

Fredrica had a lion for a body guard and he was very found of Fredrica. A Zombie was a tasty treat to the Lion and he went by the name – “Sir Lion!” What else would you call him?

Her is her story…

Hey I am Fredrica and I have a lion! Now I did not always have a lion, but the day of the Zombie Virus attack. I was at a zoo and was looking at one of the largest and most beautiful lions in the world. He was such a wonderful brute and any woman could only be as lucky as me to have a buddy like “Sir Lion!”

Let me begin…

It was early in the morning, I use to get up on a cool beautiful day and sneak into the city zoo. I wanted to see the animals as they got up and the caretakers of the zoo never seemed to mind that I was there. The morning that the Zombie Virus started, I was at the lion compound. I use to watch him stretch and yawn and he was a huge lion. He exceeded 275 kilos and that my friend is a big boy…

I was watching him and I noticed that he seemed on edge. He would look at me and then look into the distance. I had never in the last few years seen him like this. He then started to make a weird yowl and it made your heart shiver as he did it. I was totally absorbed in watching him when all of a sudden he ran like the proverbial wind and leaped like a small house cat to the top of a refrigerator, except he landed on top of a chain link fence and for a fleeting instant teetered there. I was stunned and could not move…

Then with what I thought was my last second in life, he leaped straight at me, or so I thought. He pushed me aside with claw less back paws and as I fell down. I saw his intended target. There was a Zombie right behind me and I never saw it coming…

He grabbed the Zombie by the head in his mouth and shock one time, with a snapping motion. Like a whip! The body flew twenty feet in the air and he crunched the head like it was nothing…

He crunched the head up and it really looked like he enjoyed the tasty treat…

Then I saw a whole bunch of Zombies, stumbling around and staggering around looking for food. I knew a Zombie when I saw one and even though I knew what they were, I still did not believe that they were Zombies. But in a few hours I did believe and after my new friend “Sir Lion” saved me a dozen times, I believed…

I remember looking for the first time at those beautiful green eyes that the lion had. I said out load, “You have my eyes!” They are so beautiful. Then he roared like a fright train and leaped on the next Zombie and ripped its head off…

I got up and looked around and saw a crowbar that had been being used by a maintenance worker. It looked like the one that the lion killed first. I picked it up and the lion looked at me like, “You kidding right?” Then he leaped again and one more Zombie was beheaded…

It became a game for the lion, he was getting back for all these years of captivity and he was hunting Zombies. You know that we have found several humans alive and he never once threatened them. He definitely was the superior race in this instance of life. Zombie were slow and crippled. He had a natural instinct to weed the weak out and that is what he did…

“Sir Lion” just follows me where ever I go. He is always around and I have found the man of my dreams. he is silent, loving, strong, quick and deadly. I always say he is my tall dark and handsome that I never found in a man…

He also seems to be happy with me…

“Sir Lion” and I opened all the cages of the other animals after we got the zoo under control and we live in the zoo. It is well guarded by animals and there is 12 people in all living here. The front gate is guarded by an orangutang and he is one bad-ass security guard. Everyone does their part and we have established a real society of humans and animals. Us humans prepare food for the animals and the animals guard the zoo. We have gardens and such and you know, it seems that all the animals understand that we do not mess with gardens as it is food for all. Well except a few woodpeckers and some ground squirrels. But the lion has threatened them so much that they stay a long way away from the gardens…

I have to tell a last story and tale…

The gorilla was penned with about twenty Zombies in its compound. He was surrounded by Zombies and we realized that for some reason they were planning to work on the gorilla cage and that is why it was full of workers when the Zombie Virus hit. The gorilla was a good guy and he tried not to hurt the people. He seemed to not understand that they are Zombies. I guess intelligence was a deficit in his case and since he never knew about Zombies in the first place he was in trouble…

The place that he was at did not allow us to get to him and so I stood on a wall and the lion roared. The gorilla looked at us and I made motion to smash the people. The gorilla was confused and then the lion jumped on the wall with me and had a Zombie in his mouth. The lion bit the Zombie in half as he shook the Zombie like a rag doll…

That is when you could see a light bulb go off over the gorillas head. He looked at me and I shook my head okay!

That was all he needed and he started to smash Zombies flat on the ground. Each swing of his fist cracked ever bone in a Zombie’s body…

We then finally found our way to let the gorilla out and after extra help from a few smart monkeys, that seemed to allow the gorilla to gather enough comprehension of what was going on…

Kill Zombies, but no kill humans…

I live a good life in the zoo and I have offered Stryker to join us…

Fredrica…

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I turned Fredica’s offer down as you all knew I would and I went on minding my own business. They are a wonderful people and the animals are also the future of the world. The lion still made me nervous and while he knew who I was, he was king of his group and I had no intention of messes with that. maybe one day they will need my help, but right now they are doing fine…

Next the story I will give you is about a situation that I have to keep a close eye on. Powerful and very powerful forces have been put into place in this next story…

Stryker…

This is a short story that was given to me by someone who had just buried a person on a foothill over looking the city of Atlanta, Georgia. The mountain range called the Smokey Mountains or the Appalachians, ends as it flattens out toward Atlanta, Georgia and I had come upon this poor soul as he buried his wife. They had made it for months and months together and she succumbed to Zombie bite, that happened in their last battle to survive…

Here is his story…

Hey I am Mr. Green,

I lived in Atlanta, Georgia and my late wife and I had a tanning salon just outside of the main circle road that surround Atlanta. Interstate 285 is what it was called. We had had a busy day and spent the night doing inventory. That was when the Zombie virus hit and since my wife and I are green eyed, We survived that initial attack…

But our cleaning lady was a brown eyed Mexican and she became a Zombie as lickety split as a whistle…

I remember that my wife and I heard a sound in the back room and we went together to check on what the noise was. When we opened the door to the huge tanning bead hall of doors to the rooms, we saw our cleaning lady acting all weird at the other end of the hallway. She was smacking her head on the door at the end of the hall and moaning to beat the band. She would smack her head and then moan and smack her head and then moan again…

I guess that I had seen to many Zombie movies because I knew what was going on. I mean she was a classic Zombie and the only issue was, Why?

The why did not matter, because after a few minutes and we heard a noise at the front door. We discovered that our cleaning lady was not the only one afflicted with the Zombie stuff…

I heard the front door glass crack as my wife and I rounded the corner to see what was happening at the front door. We had our early morning regular customer trying to get in and she was beating the door with her head. Then as we backed up in shock, the door exploded inward as she smacked her head even harder on the glass. She had split her head wide open as she pushed her way into the store. It was obvious that it did not bother her as all she did was look at us, moaning as if she saw her favorite food…

Now being in Atlanta, is not a safe city, so I kept a shotgun under the front counter. It was for just such moments in life, you know those moments that all hell breaks loose. I grabbed the gun and let off one barrel into the face of the honored customer and spun in time to blow the head off our cleaning lady. My wife grabbed a baseball bat that we kept and we stood there waiting to see what would happen next…

That is when we heard the moans…

Through the broken front door we could hear the most godawful terrible moaning noises in the world. We peeked out in the streets and saw Zombies everywhere, stumbling and shuffling around, as though they were lost. Then we saw a man running and he fell over a body laying wiggling on the street and before you could say jackrabbit, he was surrounded by Zombies and I will never forget his screams as they ate him alive. He was lucky, he was consumed so thoroughly that he never had a chance to become a Zombie…

Then my wife pointed and brought to my attention a Zombie that was starting to notice us. We backed silently into the shop and thought we had been lucky, when this Zombie appeared at our door and started to moan and moan and moan and he called the others as he told them by moans that we were a tasty treat…

That did it and we knew that soon the room would be flooded with Zombies. I did not have enough shells to shoot to many Zombies and I told my wife that we have to get out the back door and try to make it to a safe place to gather supplies and weapons. I had three shells left and used all three before we found an open pawnshop. The gates were almost closed, but had a dead man half eaten wedged under the gate. They had eaten his brain so he did not come back from the dead…

I heaved the gate up a short distance and my wife pulled the body out of the way. She then scooted under the gate and found the up button. Once the gate was up we looked around and I assume that the guy under the gate was the owner. No one else was inside the store. But the store had lots and lots of guns and ammo…

I heard a commotion outside the pawnshop door and my wife looked at me like, “We better secure this place or else!” I looked back with an affirmative and we shut the gate. It was a heavy steel barred gate and once it was down and in place it was not going anywhere…

We found a good food supply and that is where we started the Zombie Virus days from…

I will just add that my wife was bit by a Zombie and I had to shoot her…

I am sad now and have to decided what to do with my life as my wife was my buddy and friend…

Mr. Green…

Short Story 45: Bucky Was There When it Happened…

I met a guy named Bucky and he was am ex soldier that had made it out of the underground facility that started this terrible virus. Or I should say one of the underground facilities. There had to have been hundreds of them all over the globe, as pertained to the fact how fast it spread. You see the Zombie Virus spread like wildfire and it only took basically 2 hours to infect the whole world. Yes it was fast and unmerciful in its actions…

Lets talk to Bucky…

Hi I am Bucky,

Stryker here wants me to tell him what happened the day that the Zombie Virus hit…

I was in a huge underground facility that was being run by the military and it was being staffed mainly by civilian scientists. In fact three times more scientist than military. We (military) had very little to do and we just mainly laid around and played poker, watched movies and slept. I guess we should have kept a better eye on what was happening, because those scientist invented and released a Zombie Virus that destroyed the world…

I will tell about the day it was released and in actuality it was released by a man who carried a vial of the virus into the lunch room that we were in and he called for everyone’s attention. The room sat 500 and it was full of us military. He threw the vial and it shattered on the floor. I remember now that as the virus started to work, the scientist tried to keep themselves safe, by staying behind virus shielded doors, but the virus mutated and became caustic under the conditions of containment and found a way to defeat the door seals…

Nothing but nothing stopped this virus, except green eyes and some really good luck with those green eyes…

I have green eyes and for days I never realized why I never got the virus, but I learned real quick as several green eyed guys got bit and became Zombies real fast. Soon I was the maybe the only human left in a underground chamber of horror, full of killer Zombies. The facility had gone into lock down and that should have stopped the virus, but as I said, “the virus mutated and became caustic under the conditions of containment and found a way to defeat the door seals…”

So I was trapped in a facility that did not stop the virus from getting out, but was stopping me from getting out and I had safely made it to the outer door to find that I had to transverse all the way 30 stories down to the basement and get the code and unlock the outer door. The only place was in the basement level and that was 30 floors down. I also had to find a person with a high enough security code to release the doors…

Now I used dumb luck and made it to the locked outer door and when I looked back from where I came, I realized that dumb luck was not going to get me to the bottom floor. There had to have been a hundred Zombies who finally made their way to the 1st floor and I was at a dead end. They move so slow that I had minutes of horrifying thinking’s to do before they would get to me. They just poured into the long tunnel that I was trapped at the end of and wall to wall Zombies where shuffling toward me as fast as they could..

Then I saw a sealed security door halfway down the tunnel. I knew that this was the Marines security station and I also knew that my pass card would operate anything on the first 15 levels of the facility. I also could get not get to the 30th floor with out a better pass card…

So I ran and realized that if the pass card did not work, I would be dead man in seconds after I got to the door. Life became slow motion and every step was like two steps backward as it seemed that the Zombies had increased speed as I slowed down. Finally I swiped the card at the door and I heard the door lock click and the door swung slowly inward. A Zombie hand grabbed me and another grabbed me. I twisted and jerked and the hands slipped from me and then I fell through the door. The door was a airlock and it swung inwards. I let the door swing back closed and laid on my back. The door stopped and Zombies were holding it open. I was pushing the door with my feet and keeping them from coming in any farther, but they were not allowing the door to close. I pulled my service weapon and used the last of my 45 caliber slugs to punch holes in a few Zombie heads. They fell back from the door and the door started to close again. I pushed hard…

Then a Zombie wedged himself in the door again and I kicked his head with my foot. I then put my foot against his head and shoved. I also shot him and as he fell back, with his head exploded like a ripe watermelon. The door closed and locked…

I stood and opened the inner door and fell into the room. My foot gave out, something was wrong with my foot. The door sealed itself behind me and I found myself alone. I also discovered that I could not stand…

Then to my horror, I saw that in the excitement, I had shot through my foot and into the last Zombies head. I had shot myself…

I saw instead of heard the Zombies throwing themselves against the outer door and after a few minutes there was so many Zombies that they could not move and they were all just smashed against the bullet proof glass window. It was not a sight that I cared for…

I removed my boot and surveyed the damage that I had done and knew that I had to stop the bleeding or die in this room…

The room was a security station and was fully loaded with weapons, medical supplies and many other things. Including food supplies. It was designed to be self-sufficient encase of an accident. I would say this was a good place to be for awhile. So I set about fixing my stupidity of a gunshot wound and planned what I would do next…

The security station had another way out and it went to a back hallway that was always off limits to just about everyone and after I wrapped my foot real tight with a cast bandage, with a walking pad. I check out the back hallway. It was as I suspected empty and doors locked on each end. I could get out and no one could get in…

I decided to rest a few days, as I knew nothing was going to get worse and I needed to let my foot start healing. I waited a week and I took off the cast and checked my foot. I was taking antibiotics and anything else that I thought would help me and after it all looked okay, I recast-ed the foot, this time I put a permanent type steel reenforced fiberglass cast, with a walking sole plate…

It felt good and supported my foot very well. It took me three tries to get the cast right and once I did, I was in business…

I had it planned: I would hit the incinerator button and that would release a liquid napalm type substance into the tunnel that around a hundred Zombies were all trying to get to me at. This substance was a control factor to kill things that tried to escape the complex. So while the Zombies burned in the tunnel, I would slip out the backside and take the hallway. I hoped to kill off a bunch of Zombies, because I knew that I had a whole lot of them to kill before I got to the 30th floor at the bottom of the facility…

The tunnel was designed to handle this napalm stuff and it would not spread any father than the tunnel. I stood looking out the window of the security station and pushed the emergency incinerate button. Instantly the tunnel flashed in a explosion of fire and burning liquid was rained down upon the Zombies. I shuddered and then turned away from the sight of melting Zombies and went out the backdoor…

This time I was well armed and rested and I was ready, I hoped, for anything. I went to the right of the hallway and opened tangentially the outer door! The open area leading to the elevators was empty and it looked like everyone that became Zombies on this floor had gone into the tunnel to see what the commotion was about. The tunnel was seal with fire doors now as I had unleashed the hellfire with in it…

I was still limping and realized that I still had to be careful about my foot…

The elevators still worked and I checked the stairs. They were clear. I did not make any noise, as I knew that one Zombie hears me, the rest will hear me as the first will moan and moan and moan…

I decided that I would take the elevator and deal with what I found as I got off. I also knew that I could not go any farther than the 15th floor and had to get clearance at the security station there to continue on in the elevator. This was all security procedure and so I had to get off at the 15th sub-level and at that I would deal with what I found. No choice and no other way, for the outer door that I had to get through to get out was two feet of titanium steel and it would not care if I beat on it in desperation. So I had to get it unlocked…

I stepped on the elevator and gulped as I pushed the button for the 15th floor. I tried to push the 30th floor and it just buzzed at me as I new it would. Can’t blame me for wishing, can you?

The ride down was way too fast as it seemed that I just pushed the button and I had not gotten ready for what waited me! I slapped myself literally and when the door opened, I am glad I did, for twenty Zombie Scientists greeted me with open arms and I got to use my new found security assault rifle! Crack crack crack went the rifle and Zombie after Zombie fell…

The elevator door even closed on me twice while I shot Zombies and I had to open the doors back up. The last time that happened one Zombie almost made it too me…

I stepped out of the elevator and slipped my way in the brain and blood to the security center. Luck was still with me and a security guard was laying half eaten by the door. I grabbed his key card still in his hand and scanned it. The door popped and slid open. This was different than the door on the first floor. That swung inwards and this slid sideways…

The inner door opened after I swiped the card again and I stepped into the security center. It was empty and that surprised me again as the one upstairs was empty also. Seems like they should have at least one live guy in each, but with the realization that maybe green eyes is why I am alive, I guess I am lucky that Zombies are not in each security center in the first place…

Now I had to figure out how to get a pass card to the lower levels. Then luck held with me again…

Laying on the communication center consul was a brand new swipe card for the center administrator. I knew him by name not sight and so I tried the card and it was active and had full clearance. I decided to stay a few days and rest. My foot was killing me and I decided to take off the cast and recast in a few days. So I ate food that was stored there and even watched a movie. I also watched and learned about Zombies. I watched the cameras for days and learned their habits. I watched how they intermingled with each other and I watched them even hunt a woman down who had tried to escape by going down a hallway. I was getting ready to leave and try to help her and to my horror she was caught in a minute by dozens of Zombies and ripped her limb from limb. They feasted on her as if they had a delicacy and nothing but a few bones was left after they were done. I wonder if she was green eyed? maybe there is someone else if she was still alive?

Then I decided to leave. I left quietly and went back to the elevator. I thought I was going to make it, but the Zombies seemed to have smelled me and when I heard a sicking moan, I heard 50 answering moans…

The elevator had moved and it looked like it had set itself to the 1st floor and it had to come down to me on the 15th floor. The trip down the first time was fast, but now the trip was deadly slow. I was surrounded by Zombies and the elevator was barely moving, so it seemed. I unleashed all the firepower I had and as Zombies dropped, so did the number of them increase. It seemed that for everyone I killed, two more took its place. I kept glancing at the elevator and it was only on the 9th floor. In gods name what the hell happened to our fast elevator?

Then I realized that I had only wounded many Zombies in my haste and they were still crawling across the floor to get me. I slung my assault rife on my shoulder and pulled the riot 12 shot shotgun into play and scattered Zombies all over the place. I wedged the shotgun against my side and reloaded as I fired. 00 buckshot shredded Zombies like wet toilet paper and then when I was about to be drowned in Zombie blood the elevator doors behind me opened and I fell backwards into the elevator. The last Zombies tried to get me, but the doors shut at the last second…

I started to cry like a baby and then realized that I was going crazy and I had to get it together. I swiped the card I had found and I pushed the 30th floor. I signed with relief as the elevator responded and went downwards. I got up and once again the elevator seemed to move way too fast…

I tried to get ready and reloaded and was caught reloading as the doors opened on the 30th floor…

It was pitch dark and silent. I stepped out and the doors closed behind me. Then I panicked as I heard the elevator take off and it went according to the light gauge, back to the 1st floor…

I did not think to take a flashlight and I was standing in darkness so dark that I could not see my hand in front of my face. For even the elevator light had gone out. I stood and listened to the silence and felt the darkness become stifling and scary. Then I heard a noise…

I frozen even more than I though I was frozen and realized that I had to breath. I took a breath and it sounded like a hurricane blowing on the beach front. As the sound of my breath echoed in my ears, I heard a soft voice say, “Are you human?”

I said, “Yes!”

Then a light came on and I was temporarily blinded and when my eyes adjusted. I saw a woman standing in front of me. She had a scalpel in her hands as if that would do the job. Her green eyes just glowed with surprise as she totally realized that she was not alone and I was very happy to have a real human to talk to…

We talked awhile, her name was Wendy and to make a long story shorter but not over yet, I told her what we had to do and what we needed to do. I helped outfit her with weapons and we activated the outer door sequence to open in 1 hour. The was the earliest that we could get it open…

Then we called the elevator and climbed on board. In a few minutes we had reach the first floor. Then I was not expecting issues as I was sure the first floor was empty, but somehow more Zombies made it to the first floor. We stepped off the elevator and realized very quickly that we had at least 30 Zombies ready to eat us…

We fought and fought and fought. The Zombies finally gave up the ghost and we made or way to the tunnel to the outside. I was not sure what to expect as I opened the tunnel door and the sight in the glare of the main rooms lights was not pleasant. The tunnel was a black gooey mess of slithering Zombie parts. They did not all die and many were still able to move a melted arm or leg. I found the emergency lights that were designed to survive the decontamination. The faint glow made it all worse. Wendy and I went in and I told her to stay behind me and wait and I walked slowly down the tunnel and used the shotgun. Anything that moved I shot and anything that looked to solid I shot. Then I walked back and got Wendy…

That was it and the door clicked and swung outwards as we approached it. The time lock had worked and we were able to step outside into another tunnel, that lead to another tunnel and that tunnel went to a small building and the door on that building went outside into a bright sunny day…

That was how the end of the world started for me…

Bucky…

Short Story 44: Melba’s Zombie Kid…

I walked for many days and was blessed with not finding anyone, Zombies or not during those days. Sometimes solitude is the best medicine and I needed some peace…

I finally found a woman and her child and the woman was named Melba and her child was named Teakly…

As I neared the two walking down the road. I saw her pull the child by a chain and then I realized that the child was a Zombie. He was gagged and chained up. The woman had a wild green eyed look and she hissed at me as I stopped and stared at them. Then I took in what had happened from the vibrations in the air and asked her in a quiet toned voice, “Are you Hungry?”

I knew she was and I knew that she had been so abused by life that she was literally a psycho, that is waiting for an excuse to leap off the cliff…

I knew that was her child and I knew that she could not understand what was going on, except that her child was her baby and that it was sick…

I pointed at her child and asked, “His name?”

She looked at me with distrust and I said, “Stryker!” pointing at myself…

I pointed at her…

She hissed, “Melba and Teaky!”

I saw a huge boulder along side of the road and I went to it and sat down. I pulled out food and spread it on the flat topped boulder. She watched me and I could see the hunger in her eyes, yet I also could see the distrust in those same eyes. I simply said, “If I wanted to kill you! You would never have see me coming…”

She blinked and something clicked inside of her as hunger overcame reason and fear. She dragged the boy Zombie with her and she grabbed a chunk of bread and backed away. I thought that is fine and said, “Just eat!”

I ate a meal and sat for awhile just thinking about what kind of world that we had made for ourselves and she spoke on her own finally, after eating a large meal herself…

She said, “Thank you, you are very kind and I am sorry to distrust you at first!”

I looked at her and just offered her a drink of water and then asked her, “I collect stories! Tell me yours and then we will part our ways! Tell me how the Zombie Virus day happened for you?”

She say=t and thought a moment and then had to get her kid under control as he started to jerk violently and moan to beat the band. Then I saw a rabbit hop by and I realized that he was wanting that rabbit…

The rabbit wandered away and the boy calmed down. Then she turned to me and spoke…

Hi I am Melba,

My world actually started when the Zombie Virus began. I was a single mom and was brutally beaten and raped constantly by men who where drunk. They would hunt me down and threaten me to kill my kid if I did not do things for them. Things that were bad…

I lived a life of hell and will not talk about that anymore. I will talk about what happened after the Zombie Virus happened…

I had hidden in a deep basement area and no one had found me or my son for days, in fact it had become very quiet and after the day before it was calm. There was a whole day of screams and yelling and gunshots and it sounded like a war was happening. Hunger drove me and my boy outside and we dared to venture just to find food and then we were going to hide again…

The sight that we came upon was terrible. People shuffling and moaning all over and half eaten bodies everywhere. Then out of know where, this dragging corpse of a Zombie grabbed my boys ankle and bit him. I beat the Zombie or corpse that was living and drug my boy back into the basement. I tended his wound and went and got food and stuff…

When I came back to the basement, I found that my boy was delirious and going crazy. I tended to him and fed him. He just threw up the food and got worse by the minute. Finally he died in my arms and I cried for hours…

Then as I was still holding him, he moved! I knew what was happening and just like all those corpse above us. I knew that my boy was waking up to be just like them. I quickly tied him up and as I finished, his green beautiful eyes had become milky colored eyes as they opened up and he moaned. I gagged him real quickly as I knew that would bring the others. That moan is a communication to the other Zombies as to a food source is around…

Then I thought about what to do and since I knew I would not kill my boy. I decided to gather supplies and we would leave the city. We would go to the countryside and survive. Zombies leave us alone as they think we are both Zombies. My little boy seems to be able to tell other Zombies that we are undead and that I am also. So the only issues that we have are humans and I keep my boy tied up and gagged so no one hears us. I let him free when we are very alone and I catch rabbits and such so that he can eat. He is happy as a Zombie can be, with rabbits to eat…

We have wandered the land just surviving and as I said, “My world actually started when the Zombie Virus began.” I now have peace and my boy still loves me. I can just feel it…

Malba…

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Then her child looked at me and moaned a soft moan that was unlike any that I have heard before. She released him and he stumbled around as we watched. He actually ate some insects that were trying to get away and he seemed to be happy with that. He never acted bad and never treated his mom as a food source and he just would stop and stare at me and shudder as he looked at me. I could feel his eyes searching me under that layer of fogged lenses. He knew I was different and he knew that I was not going to harm them…

After they did there things and I gave her as many of my supplies as I could. So that they would not have to go near a town for awhile longer. They said goodbye and packed up and started to leave…

I did my rare thing I do and I touched Melba on the hand. She jerked and then blinked. I turned to the boy and touched his forehead. I marked him for heaven and I gave his human soul a chance to rest. I told him that when he is ready, just call and I will come to take him away. He blinked and moaned that soft moan again…

His mother then woke from her inner self and I saw her stand taller and stronger. I had given her some strength to replace the years of abuse that she had to endure and gave her the ability to spend more years in happiness and from that touch on her hand, I could tell she was truly happy…

I watched Melba walk away with her kid and the Zombie boy turned to look at me! I know it seems funny, but I felt a thank you coming from the Zombie boy…

I sat and watched them as they disappeared into the distance and then I did something that I do not do often…

I cried…

I cried for a world that was once so bad that even now in the worst of times, the Zombie Times! Someone thinks that the world is better now and that their life is better. I cried for a world that abused her people so bad that we ended up like this. Zombies…

I cried as I watched a mother and her Zombie boy walk away and they are happy…

Stryker…

Short Story 43: Barnett’s Tale…

I came upon a man who was stuck on the face of a cliff. He had Zombies trying to reach him from below and he had Zombies trying to reach him from above. If it was not so life threatening it would have been funny as all get out, but I am sure he would not have seen the humor in the situation. So I did not laugh…

I stood there and surmised the situation and then after clearing out the Zombies below him. I motioned for him to climb down. This caused the Zombies above him to freak out and they all one by one toppled over the edge and fell on their heads on the ground. Before they could get up I chopped their heads off and waited until the man got down…

He was very thankful and said his name was Barnett and I said no issues just tell me what you were doing the day the Zombies Virus struck. He said okay…

Hi my name is Barnett and here is my story,

I use to sell cars down in the valley at a place called, “Trust Me! Billy Bob’s Car Center…”

That there is Billy Bob right there in that pile. The one with no hair! You chopped his head off today. He has followed me from the day that the Zombie Virus hit and I just could not bring myself to kill him…

I know kinda hard to imagine, not killing a Zombie! The point is I can’t bring myself to killing any Zombies and so I just run and run and run. I have stayed out in the open when ever I can and just use my abilities to run…

Today was a day that I thought they would get me and I realized today as I realized a long time ago. I can not kill them. They were all my buddies at one time and people I knew. Why there is Mary, Sam, Billy, Joe and Maggie to name a few in that pile you created. They all worked with me at the dealership…

But enough of reminiscing and let me tell you about when the Virus struck our little valley…

I had wandered back to work late one evening and opened up the dealership at midnight to talk with a customer that only had late evenings to look at a car. Billy Bob let me do that and that was why I was number one salesman. I did what it took to sell a car…

I remember that car! It was a Mercedes, gull wing a 2012 model and bright candy apple red. It was a beauty and it would have set me up right nice as the richest salesman in the county. I had the deal signed and sealed and the man paid cash for the car…

I popped a bottle of champagne and the man (I can’t remember his name for the life of me!) and I sat and drank a toast to life. It was 4am according to the clock on the front showroom wall and I thought, “What a great world we live in and I am a rich boy now! I was dreaming about how Mary (Dead in the pile now! That Mary…)” would love to go help me spend that money and why she might even marry me now. You know she had turned me down three times. Said I was not rich enough. Why I have to tell you that Mary was a looker and she always caught my eye…

Sorry, I guess I need to quit reminiscing too much…

So where was I? Oh yes, I was sipping that champagne and feeling good about myself and I just could see the look on Billy Bob’s face when he saw the cash on the barrel head for that expensive car. Why he might even let me take the rest of the day off. But I wouldn’t because I had cars to sell…

I know I know get to the story…

Well all was good until the man who bought the car, started to gasp and he grabbed his throat. Then he fell over on the floor and when I got the nerve to check him, he was dead. Dead as a door nail…

I picked up the phone and tried to call the police and no one answered. That is when I was trying to figure out how to keep all that money and say the car was not sold at all. I mean the man is dead right? He can’t drive it and all that cash could be mine now. He can’t spend it, right?

That was stupid of me because as we all know know money is worthless, but being that I use to be ruled by the money god of greed, I was trying to figure out all what to do and never noticed that the man got back up off the ground and was standing staring at me. At least I never noticed until that awful moan started to escape his lips…

I turned and looked at the dead guy and since no one answered at 911, I hung up the phone and stared right back at the Zombie. Yes a Zombie, he even looked like a Zombie from those terrible movies that I always watched late at night…

He had fogged over eyes and bloody drool draining from his mouth and he moaned. Then he stepped toward me and shuffled just like a Zombie…

I stepped away from him and he kept shuffling toward me. So I ran and of course he could not run and I stayed away from him that way. He fell over chairs and desks and plants and before long, the place was a mess. I thought to myself that Billy Bob was going to be pissed off and I was trying to figure out how to explain all this. I don’t hardly think it is my fault that the guy became a Zombie while I was selling a car to him. In fact I was just doing my job…

Then something slammed against the front glass door of the dealership and I turned to look and since it was now daylight outside. I saw Billy Bob at the door…

Except Billy Bob was in worse shape than this guy in hear with me. He had an eye dangling from his eye socket and one arm was half eaten. But other than that he looked okay…

The guy trying to catch me moaned loud at the intrusion of another Zombie and Billy Bob the Zombie moaned even louder as he saw me and started to drool at the desire to east my brains…

Then from nowhere came the night janitor. I never knew where he had been hiding the whole time and I did not realize that he was even there. He come shuffling from nowhere and tried to grab me also. Just then the front door shattered as Billy Bob shuffled into the showroom and now I had three Zombies to deal with…

I ran up the stairs to Billy Bobs office. I knew it had a door leading outside and I knew he kept a few guns for protection. I unlocked the office and went in. I grabbed the gun and decided that I needed to kill those Zombies downstairs before they killed me. I tried and found that I could not pull the trigger and right then I knew I had to run and keep running. For I was too wimpy to kill a Zombie…

I went out the back door and decided to find Mary, for you see I was rich and it was obvious that Billy Bob would not need the money now. I just knew Mary would love me now and love me good…

I knocked on Mary’s door to her house and when no one answered, I started to worry. In fact with all the Zombies that I saw shuffling around and eating screaming people. I worried that this might not be a localized issue and that maybe this all was a serious issue that could have gotten out of hand. In fact I then kicked Mary’s door in and instead of love for being rich, I found a brain eating Zombie, who was eating the brains of her latest lover the previous night. I gathered that he would not come back from the dead and when she saw me. She wanted my brains also…

Then I ran and ran and ran…

I learned to run through stores and grab what I needed and run out as fast as I ran in. I learned to use a walking stick and I push Zombies away as I run. I learned to run up hills and down hills and around the hills. I learned to run between Zombies and away from Zombies. I am in good shape as I run everywhere and so far it has worked, well until you found me trapped between a rock and a hard place…

You see I ran and climbed up o that ledge I was on and thought I could just climb on up and get away. It worked before, but then somehow Zombies had climbed above me and I was trapped with Zombies below and Zombies above. Then you showed up as I was about to give up hope…

So that is my story about what happened when the Zombie Virus struck…

Barnett

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I left Barnett running away and I shook my head at the thought of helping him. He is not helping himself and really he is not living on anything but pure dumb luck. For deep inside him is a bad person and he is just running from himself and life. I found it interesting that he is so good at running that he is outrunning the virus somehow. For he has blue eyes and has not gotten the virus. That is strange and I am not sure why he has not gotten it, for blue eyes is definitely in the books to get it…

Maybe he has green eye genes and or maybe he is just that good at running. Even from the Zombie Virus…

Stryker…

Newt was a little guy! I don’t mean a child, I mean a little guy! Like a midget. but even smaller. He was the smallest adult that survived the Zombie Virus and his big green eyes are expressive and full of hope for the world. His best buddy is a big mutt that is part German Shepard. He just calls him “Doggy”…

Here is his story…

Hi I am Newt,

I am a little guy, in fact in most of the world I am known as a tiny midget! I have green eyes and that is the start of this story…

I hated my green eyes and I hated my green eyes more than being a tiny little guy. So I had made arrangements to have my eye color changed. No not just put in contacts a different color, but have the eye actually changed in color…

I found a doctor that said he could do just what I wanted and I would have beautiful blue eyes when I took the bandages off in two weeks after the operation. So I agreed and went to the doctors office very early in the morning. The same morning that this terrible Zombie Virus hit the world…

The doctor and his nurse greeted me and all was normal. It was 5am and the world had not woke yet. I remember that I sat in a chair that looked a lot like a dentist chair and I felt very tiny in that chair. I really think that my size is what saved me later. No one saw me in the chair…

The doctor said after giving me a shot in the arm, “Count to a hundred for me!”

I started to count and do not remember anything after 23, 24, 2….

I awoke what was many hours later and realized that I was still in the dentist type chair. I sat still and allowed myself to gather my wits about me and I realized that I was able to see just fine. I also realized that I did not hurt. Wow I thought, this guy is really good and as I sat there waking up, I heard a strange noise…

I am sure that you have heard this before, but you know that terrible noise that Zombies make? That terrible moaning sound that reaches into your soul and you just know that an undead Zombie is searching for food. I really understand now that Zombies and humans are interconnected in many ways. One of the connections is that moan and it is a imbalance of the Zombies death and a humans weakness to fight off that death…

As I was contemplating that moan, I was stunned when the nurse walked or should I say shuffled around in front of my chair. She had a finger of someone and was chewing on it like a dog chews on a bone…

I froze still and then heard a moan behind me. I kept myself from making any noise and was rewarded with the doctor shuffling toward the nurse and they ensued with a fight over the finger. Finally the doctor turned and looked right at me and as he shuffled closer, I could see him trying to focus his eyes on me. It was strange his eyes that had been so clear and black earlier, were now milky white. It was obvious that he could not see very well and that, plus my size saved me for that minute…

He turned back to the nurse who had moaned as she munched that finger and I took advantage of the situation. On a tray next to me was a long thin steel ice pick looking thing. It had a good handle on it and the doctor was right there in front of me. I could leap on his head and drive this ice picky thing into his right temple. I knew that Zombies can only be killed by killing the brain…

With out thinking anymore, I grabbed that weapon and leaped. I was perfection in motion and scratch one Zombie Doctor. He hit the ground and only jerked once in his second death. I had leaped back to the chair before the doctor fell and stood there waiting for the nurse…

The nurse did not even look my way, as she was too interested in munching on that finger. I wondered whose finger it was, as the doctor had all his and I was interrupted with a moan of a alive person from the floor under my chair. I looked over the edge and saw a woman who was still alive and not a Zombie. She then asked me to kill her as she was turning into a Zombie…

I still had my ice picky thingy and once again I went with the flow of life and leaped on top of that woman’s head and drove the point into her temple. After scrambling her brains with my special weapon, I looked up and saw that the nurse Zombie never looked up. Damn that finger must be awful good…

The door to the office was open and I decided that getting my eye color changed was not going to happen and it was time to vacate the premises and see what is happening else where in the world…

I was soon to find out that being a little guy was a big help in more ways than not…

I finally made it too the street and I knew that I needed to get a decent weapon. For most Zombies will not bend over and let me kill them with a ice picky thingy. So when I got outside I stayed low to the ground and stayed near the walls of the buildings. I went under cars and finally found what I needed to kill Zombies with…

I found a half eaten cop and still in his holster was a 10mm Glock and 5 clips full of ammo. He never even got a shot off before the Zombies ate him and thank goodness Zombies do not use guns…

I gathered the weapon and ammo and sat under a car. (I told you I am a little guy!) Then did some thinking. While I was thinking a dog crawled under the car with me and was as surprised as I was. I held the gun up and watched for any doggy Zombie signs. He looked at me with teeth bared and looked for human Zombie signs. We both lowered our weapons as we realized that we were the real McCoy, well except I was small enough to ride the doggy…

Ride the doggy? That is it and I hopped on his back after we got out from under the car and I held on to his collar that he had on. I said, “Run boy, Run!” and he did. He ran like the wind and we escaped the city and ended up in the woods…

Now it was the longest trip out of town I ever had. He ran and ran and ran and I shot Zombies between the eyes. Finally I ran out of bullets and with luck we ran out of city…

Doggy is my best buddy and him and I have taken on more than a few Zombies…

I guess that is enough, because I could go on forever…

I want to add though that doggy and I are doing good and we have 20 friends hidden in the woods. They have all been saved from Zombies at one time or another. We stick together and they asked me to be the leader. Strange huh a little guy being the boss?

So now we are trying to set up another place to live and make it more permanent. We want to start trying to have a life of peace and quiet. The issue is that Zombies are so plentiful and they are so hungry that you never can let your guard down…

Winter is coming and the Zombies will freeze. Then we are going to clean house on these Zombies. Build a fortress and try to be human again and not scared rabbits running all the time…

I think we are going to make it and we will have a better world from it all…

Goodbye…

Newt…

P.S. – I am so glad I have green eyes…