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way.  Every fifteen or twenty feet another overhead light came on announcing my arrival.  They never looked up.  They were too busy eating.  One had his head inside Mary’s stomach eating her entrails I guessed.  At this sight, I had no control of my thoughts and something sick involuntarily  popped in my mind.  Was Mary pregnant?  That would be too much to take.  I mentally berated my mind.  The other was eating her right leg.  He‘d already finished her left leg, picking it clean to the bone.  Again, my first thought was how close did it taste to a chicken leg.  That was when my cell phone rang. 
                 
                 
     
     
     
                  Chapter 13
                  The security guard that was munching on Mary’s leg looked up at me and growled.  His eyes were clouded over and I didn’t know if he could even see me.  He lowered his face down to Mary’s leg and bit off a huge chunk.  He had to shake his head back and forth like a shark to get the piece of flesh to tear away.  That’s when my phone rang again.  I should have silenced my ringer.
                  This time he stood up and started coming towards me.  I was terrified.  I couldn’t even move.  Half his face had been chewed off.  I could see his skull.  His left eye was completely exposed and was rolling around in it’s socket.  His ear and most of the scalp on the left side of his head was gone.  He stumbled over Mary’s outstretched arm and fell to the ground.  That snapped me out of my temporary paralysis.  The zombie struggled back to his feet.  He was moaning and began shuffling towards me again.  I took careful aim and fired.  The shot hit him dead center in the chest.  The impact blew him off his feet and he landed on top of Mary and the other zombie.  He got right back up and I remembered I had to shoot the head.  My son’s words came back to me.  The only way to stop them was to destroy their brains.  I brought my gun up.  This time I aimed for the head and pulled the trigger.  It must have been a good shot because his head was disintegrated and this time when the zombie went down, he didn’t get back up.  “Take that you son of a bitch.”
                  Now it was time to take care of the other one.  I’d have to get closer to kill this one because I couldn’t see his head.  He had his entire head inside Mary’s body.  It was like he was trying to crawl up inside her.  I couldn’t stand looking at this.  Between the sight and the smell, I started retching and was about to throw up when Mary’s eyes opened.  They were opaque just like the security guards’ eyes.  She looked up at me from the ground, grinned like a crazy woman, and tried to grab my leg.  The other zombie security guard pulled his head out of Mary’s abdomen and hissed at me.  I think he was upset with me.  Maybe zombies don’t eat each other and now that Mary was one of them, he thought I’d ruined his feast.  I blew his head off.
                  I backed away from Mary.  I’d never really liked Mary.  She was a backstabbing little bitch and was always trying to get me in trouble.  It wasn’t as if I was doing anything wrong.  I think she just wanted my job.  I could never understand that.  She didn’t realize that I wasn’t making that much more money than she was.  Hell, I didn’t even want my job.  Still, I didn’t think I’d be able to shoot her.  She kept trying to get to her feet but she couldn’t.  There was too much damage to the one leg.  All the muscle tissue was gone so the leg couldn’t work.  I kept backing up.  She kept crawling after me.  At one point I could have sworn she was trying to talk to me.  Was that my name she was trying to mouth?  Maybe it was just my imagination.  Surely she was just making guttural noises.  Right?  While her eyes were clouded over, was that pleading