Zombies! Rising from the Dead by Richard Palmer Read Free Book Online Page B

stunned. Then I felt Rick jerk me into the vehicle snapping me out of my daze. I fumbled for the door, getting a grasp on it I slammed it shut locking it firmly behind me.

    “Let’s get the fuck out of here!” Rick screamed at me.

    I put the truck in reverse, still staring as the thing lumbered towards us.

    “GO ! GO! GO!” Rick yelled as he frantically shook his arm and pointed his finger.

    I said nothing, what the hell could I say? I put the truck in drive and start ed to maneuver around the other vehicles. As we passed we could see what happened to some of the poor souls trapped in the cars. They must have been injured in the crash; those that weren't probably got away on foot. The ones that couldn't laid there as this “thing” consumed them, helpless to stop it.

    We passed one of the passengers, a young girl, she couldn't have been more tha n twenty. Laying there slumped over on the passenger side. White shorts and a tank top covered in blood, and a gaping bright red hole in her gut where the creature had feasted on her. She sat there with her head back, arms off to her side, mouth agape while her lifeless eyes stared up at the roof of the vehicle; a macabre sight.

    The mind goes to strange places, bad places; unnatural places . My mind drifted, I couldn't help but wonder if she was conscious w hen the creature came to her. Did she know what it was or what was about happen? What did it feel like as she laid there helpless and felt its cold lifeless hands tearing at her gut and ripping her open? What was running through her mind in those final moments as she looked down and saw the creature's head buried in her innards and feasting on her own organs? Did she watch and look into its cold, dead eyes as it consumed her? How long did she suffer in its cold, soulless embrace before she finally succumbed? Chilling thoughts and I tried not to linger on it long.

    We drove on past the creature that devoured the poor girl. I could see the creature’s head crane and its body turn as we went past. It made a halfhearted reach at the truck but moved too slowly to present any threat.

    Driving past the young girl it felt disrespectful to simply leave her there for this creature to have its way with. I knew that someone som ewhere might be waiting for her; waiting in vain for she would never come. If it had been me I would want to know what had h appened to a loved one, someone I cared about.

    That girl had been precious to someone, loved by someone, but all that she was, all that she could have been, all of her potential, now reduced to nothing more than chucks of rotting meat inside the putrid belly of that unholy, godless thing. Despite of how we felt there was nothing we could do for her, not even a decent burial, not now, not like this; her problems were now over but ours were just beginning. We drove off doing our best to leave the scene behind
    us .

    A few miles down the road we began to calm somewhat. The fog of events that had so quickly transpired began to settle as reality reassert ed its grasp. The death grip on the steering wheel began to loosen as my heart rate slowed and breathing returned to normal, I took a deep breath and tried to re-collect myself.

    Rick's cell phone had been ringing wildly throughout the whole ordeal, Rick had dropped the phone when I lost control of the truck and Amanda had gotten disconnected. Rick snatched it up off the floorboard and answered. I could hear Amanda yelling fr antically, but couldn't tell what she was saying; all I could hear was Rick's response.

    “It's alright, it’s alright, we just ran into...an accident”. He commented without giving the details of what had just happened.

    “ Okay, okay where are you now?” He nodded, listening intently.

    “Good, now listen to me . Be careful and don't stop anywhere you hear me? Don't stop anywhere! When you get to my place get inside and lock the door. Don't answer it for anyone , don't go outside for anything, just