Free El Paso Under Attack - 01 by Michael Clary Page A

summer…well, I don’t think the zombies liked it very much, because the ones that hadn’t already entered the nearby houses seeking shelter were all sitting around in whatever shade they could find looking just as miserable as you please.
    This is common knowledge now of course. Zombies don’t like extremely hot temperatures. They tend to get really sluggish and seek out whatever shelters they can find, but back then it was new and welcome news to me.
    However, when zombies are stalking humans they tend to be rather relentless. I’d noticed that without much difficulty as well. So that meant that even though most of them were waiting out the heat in the neighbor’s homes, the minute we made a run to the car they’d snap awake and attack.
    My plan needed a part two since the idea of running to the car and getting surrounded by masses of zombies wasn’t very appealing. I wandered around the garage until I saw the ladder and every bit of my crazy ass plan came together. I also caught sight of some chain link fence. Now that really started to spin my gears. However, I had to keep my mind on the present situation, which included rigging up the ladder and getting back to Georgie’s. Just keep chain link fencing in the back of your mind, because I’ll get there later.

    We spent the entire night stretching out that ladder. It was already pretty long, but we needed it even longer for my plan to work and we also needed to reinforce it so that it would hold our weight.
    The zombies snapped out of it as soon as the sun went down. We could hear them outside, as we pounded and hammered on the ladder; they pounded and hammered on the walls. My plan may have been insane, but it was still a halfway decent idea. It was also the best we were gonna come up with. We just needed the sun to make another appearance so we could get a decent head start.
    “ How was Tamra doing during all of this? ”
    She wasn’t doing very well. She was steadily getting worse. Kingsley refused to leave without her. He’s always had a soft spot for kids. He’s good with them and as far as he was concerned, she was alone in this world and he wasn’t about to abandon her.
    “ How did you feel about her? ”
    I have no idea. I kept my distance, but Kingsley had made up his mind and that dudes an Aries. Those people are stubborn as hell…my wife’s an Aries as well, so I speak from experience. If Dudley and I left without the girl, we were also going to have to leave without Kingsley and neither one of us was prepared to do that, so the decision was made without me ever having to think about it.
    When we made a break for it, Tamra was coming with us.
    “ You had no attachment to her? ”
    I knew what was going to happen. I kept my distance. If I was wrong I’d make up for it and buy her an ice cream, but I’m rarely ever wrong. That’s one of the many things about me that can really infuriate people, but it’s also something that they have to learn to live with if they wanna hang.
    I was really hoping that this would be one of those rare occasions and I’d be wrong. I mean…I was still getting my information from a bunch of movies and most of them weren’t even very good movies. There was hope. Not much, but a little.

    When the sun rose on the fifth morning we watched in anticipation. The day grew hotter and hotter. The majority of the zombies sought shelter once again. The ones that remained sat in the shade or squirmed under bushes. By mid afternoon Dudley, Kingsley and Tamra were on the roof with this incredibly long and awkward homemade bridge that used to be a ladder.
    The houses in this neighborhood were rather close together. The bridge easily spanned the distance to the next houses roof. Kingsley began to make his way across. The zombies hadn’t noticed what they were doing yet; they were more concerned about the heat.
    The homemade bridge worked…kind of. It wobbled like hell, but Kingsley made it. Next up was Dudley. He had Tamra