Reports were coming in! The zombies were stronger than we’d anticipated. They were breaking through defenses. Killing people. Ravaging cities. Still they were moving further and further outward.
And now, we were getting sick. Sasha was the first to come down with symptoms. She’s only one. Mom started crying. Dad and Ash have not returned yet. Where were they? What's happening? We can't reach anyone by phone. And everything here was still quiet. Always to quiet now. And I didn’t want to say anything, but I could feel heat starting to spread through my body. Fever.
©2014, Aelfwynn MacGregor, AMB
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Darke Night
HorrorNormal life if for the mundane. You don't learn this, until you lose it. Darkeness can descend quickly in a storybook world, and even quicker in the real one. Darkeness comes on in the time of disease. As the flu sweeps nations, changes begin in the...
