Free Dead Beginnings (Vol. 2) by Alex Apostol

he waited for the inevitable horde of dead to raid the barn and kill them all.
                  Lee was the only one to remain on the floor, his back relaxed and his head turned upward with his eyes closed as if he had been carried off into a peaceful dream. In reality, he was fighting tooth-and-nail not to see his dead wife’s face, which seemed to burn in his retinas.
    The last thing he wanted to do was get up and fight to save someone else only to watch them die at the hands of the dead. He wasn’t even sure if he wanted to stay with this group, a group he didn’t particularly care for, because he was too terrified that someone else would die when he could have saved them. Maybe it was best to be alone, and if the dead sunk their teeth into him and ripped him apart with their bare, cold hands, then that was what was meant to be.
    Shots fired into the night. Lonnie shouted a slew of curses. Rowan stood just outside the doors, watching in awe as the blonde charged head-first into the darkness. Mitchell stood shaking in fear. He had finally picked up his shotgun and held it close to his chest, ready to fire.
    Lee had a fleeting worry that the kid would shoot the first thing that came through the door whether it was dead or alive. He almost stood up to tell Mitchell to calm down, but in the end he stayed put. What did it matter? He would comfort the kid only to see the others mortally wounded from his inaccurate fires. They would bleed to death slowly, the life fading from their brilliant young eyes as Lee looked down on them. It was better to stay hidden in the shadows and walk past the aftermath than see more horror unfold at his feet.
    So, that’s exactly what Lee did.
    And even when Lonnie saved the woman named Gale Lewis from the horde chasing her and everyone was safe and sound inside the lighted, warm barn, Lee still sat in the back, isolated from every living thing around him. That was the way it had to be if he wanted to survive in this new world. Getting attached meant dealing with heartbreaking loss later. It was best if he avoided it altogether.
    All he planned to do from that moment forward was survive.
                 

 
     
     
     
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    Look for Alex Apostol’s new zombie novel, It’s an Undead Thing , part of the new horrifyingly hilarious Zooey Zombie series, at the end of October.
     
     
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