Zombie Theorem (Book 1): The Culling by James Wallace Read Free Book Online Page A

for them. I knew I had a support staff in Matt and Brian but for the first time of my life, I felt lost, wandering in a fog with nothing to guide me. “Things can’t get worse can they?” I said quietly to myself. I then felt a hand grab my arm and I swung around as fast as I could. Lisa jumped back with a terrified look on her face.
    “You’re not going to hit me are you?” She said while covering her face and slinking back away from me.
    “No of course not, you just surprised me that’s all. What can I do for you?” I said forcing a smile on my face.
    “You said if we had to pee you would let us out remember? Well I need to pee.”  She complained.
    “No problem let me see if anyone else needs to.”
    I turned to walk away and Lisa grabbed my wrist. “Later, I need to go now! Just take me and you can come back and get the others.” She started yanking on my arm pulling me toward the doors. I rolled my eyes and followed her. I unlocked the lobby doors and left one slightly open. I figured since I was here I would also go and maybe get some cold water splashed on my face. She bounded down the hallway and into the girl’s bathroom. I slid into the men’s bathroom, headed over to the urinals, and took care of that pressing need. Now that I think of it, is the first I had gone all day. I walked to the sinks and washed my face taking time to wet my head and stretch. I took my time drying my hands; Lisa will just have to wait for me. Suddenly I heard a guttural scream which tore through to the core of my being. Then there was the padding of feet running and then a door banging open.
    “Oh shit Lisa!” I screamed and slammed the bathroom door open. She was not in the hallway but the stairway door had been untied and left open. I ran to it yelling for Lisa. I got to the door and looked out, I couldn’t see anything through the pitch dark. But I could hear someone, or was it more than one set of feet, pounding on the metal stairway. It sounded like they were headed up not down though. I was tempted to run up the stairs but thought better of it. I couldn’t see anything through the pitch black and to tell you the truth I was afraid, more than any other time in my life, I was afraid. I stepped back and closed the door making sure to retie the fire hose back onto the handle. I ran through the lobby and into the office leaving the door wide open.
    “Brian get up I need you now!” I yelled. Everyone woke up with a start and just stared at me in shock. Brian was not one to be shocked awake though. He came to full awake in seconds and jumped to his feet.
    His eyes went wide and he yelled at me to “Move now!” in his best drill instructor voice. I didn’t even think, I just reacted. I figured if he was warning me then I should move toward him since he was safety. That saved my life. I got to him and noticed everyone was running into my office. I stopped and whirled around. What I saw next I knew would stay with me for the rest of my life. Stacey stood there with her intestines and organs hanging out of her gaping wound. Her eyes were the color of spoiled milk. Both arms out in front of her, hands opening and closing as though she could grab us from there. Her mouth kept snapping open and closed, her teeth clacking so hard I thought they would break.
    “Holy fuck Brian what the hell is wrong with her? She can’t be alive right? Holy shit how can she be walking with her guts hanging out?” I was asking questions in a panic. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
    “Boss I have no idea how to answer any of your questions. And to be truthful I don’t think right now it matters. Get your ass in your office and lock the door. I’ll do what I can do for her.” Brian kept backing up slowly toward my office door.
    I stopped in my tracks, and looked at my office and door. It would be so easy to chicken out and leave Brian to his own demise. Something inside me shook its head and told me to grow a hairy pair and stand