Carrier

By Stewart Felkel

Carrier
When the zombie invasion finally came Tim was caught unprepared. Bitten and left for dead he refuses to give in to defeat. Despite all odds he recovers from the disease that is ravaging the world. But what does a man alone, even a man apparently immune, do with a second chance at life in a post apocalyptic world?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stewart Felkel
• Release date: Mar 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310712678

Stewart Felkel

Stewart lives in Sterlington, La. with his beautiful wife and their three precocious fur babies. He works as a band director at a local high school among other things. You can follow him at www.stewartfelkel.weebly.com or you can find him on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

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Carrier

When the zombie invasion finally came Tim was caught unprepared. Bitten and left for dead he refuses to give in to defeat. Despite all odds he recovers from the disease that is ravaging the world. But what does a man alone, even a man apparently immune, do with a second chance at life in a post apocalyptic world?

Carrier

by

Stewart Felkel

PUBLISHED BY:

Stewart Felkel at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 by Stewart Felkel

Carrier is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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He scanned the scope of his rifle slowly back and forth looking for targets. His breath misted in front of his face. The tree stand he was in blocked some of the wind, but did little else to keep out the chill of a south Arkansas winter. It was a much damper cold than he was used to out west. He was slowly becoming acclimated to it he thought, having hunted in these areas for the last few years. He lowered his rifle and laid it across his lap while he sat back. His mind started to wander as it always did and inevitably he found himself thinking of how everything had begun.

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They were on a hunting trip when it all started. The news quickly erupted with vivid stories of cannibalism and mindless violence. Sitting in their cabin watching on an old television with rabbit ears and foil they grew more horrified nightly. After the first day he wanted to go home to his family, but the others weren’t convinced. After two more days they were all ready to get home. It was a nightmare journey through a landscape of torn bodies and gutted buildings. A landscape that just a week earlier had been vibrant and alive was now a wasteland of shuffling corpses and terrified survivors.

It was the second time that they stopped for fuel that tragedy struck. Standing with nozzle in hand he could feel his legs trembling. He was terrified every time that they were forced to stop. The hum of the pump was vibrating through his soles when fire exploded in his shoulder. He could feel teeth biting into him and panic almost overwhelmed him. They should have set a guard. He should have been armed himself, but their laxness was about to cost him.

He beat the thing off with his free hand. Running to the back glass of the Jimmy he managed to get his rifle from the back seat. He spun around and shot the ghoul point blank. His shot brought the others running back out of the store, but it also drew more of the zombies to them. They wasted precious seconds staring at his bleeding arm. Of all the contradicting news reports they had heard only one thing remained constant. If you were bitten then you were dead. And then you were worse than dead.

He knew this and looking into their wide eyes he knew that they were thinking it too. He couldn’t go any farther. He took a deep breath to slow his racing heart before leaning into the SUV for his pack of supplies. Slipping it