Alive Again

By Paul Block

They had been three. Traveling together for safety. In the world of the Un-dead... And they didn't kid themselves, it was the world of the Un-dead, and there was little enough protection even traveling as a group.

The Living dead... Zombies... Un-dead... It didn't matter what words you used, they were things that should not be. And those things that should not be were getting stronger... Smarter... They were coming out in the daylight now. And they did not hesitate to kill... To bite... And what did it matter which they did? Either was the end of life and the beginning of forever dead. And none of them had a need to be dead... A wish to be dead.

Not that there weren't days when they had wished for death, there were. The world was destroyed. Decaying right along with the Zombies who now ruled it. It was a hard place to want to live in. A hard place. And it could make you wish for death, but not death like that. Not death that never ended.

The day had started out as a good day, but it quickly changed. Before the sun set one of their own would be doomed to death... Living death...

They were moving on. They had decided someplace else would be better and they had started out early that morning. Bobby told himself later that maybe they had decided to move on too late. Or, maybe the dead were just that much quicker, smarter than they used to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: A. L. Norton
• Release date: Feb 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301314058

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ALIVE AGAIN

Copyright 2016 Paul Block

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PUBLISHED BY: Wendell Sweet

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Alive Again

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TWO

THREE

The Zombie Plagues Dead Road

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ONE

August 4th

Plague Year One

Bear

We were down along the river checking over some old buildings that were perched on the cliffs there, high above the water. Fall was not far away and we knew we had to get moving, get out of this dead city. We had half the country to cross and find a place before winter came back around again.

We had left the others in our place off the park. An abandoned factory building I had found after I had lost Donita, and struck out looking for food earlier that morning. With the park and its crowds so near to us, the shops and small stores for blocks around us were stripped clean. Another reason to get out of the city. It was time. I remember thinking that as I walked along.

I was thinking back to March as I walked. Not really paying attention to the walk, where I was going... March... Just a few months ago, but the world was still the world then. And for the next little while we didn't even know about the dead. Dead was still dead. When you closed your eyes for the long eternal sleep you didn't wake up a short minute later as something else. No. We were ignorant up until they decided to come after us. Ignorant. Stupid. Didn't know a thing: Have a clue.

I had