The Rescue: Short Story

By James Loscombe

The Dead are coming

Sam wants to stay out of trouble and avoid the zombie apocalypse. So far he's done a pretty good job of it. Until the night that he hears her screaming. Fearing for his own safety, he goes to investigate and finds himself drawn into her struggle. If he doesn't get away then the zombies will kill them both. Or worse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James Loscombe
• Release date: Mar 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386694564

James Loscombe

James Loscombe has been publishing under various pen names for the last five years. He lives in England with his wife Tamzin and their sons Jude and Oscar.

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Sam stood at the floor to ceiling window on the twelfth floor and looked down. There were no cars moving, no people walking and no lights on in any of the other buildings. Most importantly, there were no zombies.

He was alone.

He watched for a while longer, to be sure, and then turned away from the window. He had set up a small camp bed in the corner of the room. His bag was on what had once been a conference table. It had a touch screen display embedded in the middle, but there was no power to it now.

Sam pulled open his bag and took out a tin of tomato soup. He didn’t have any way to cook it, because a gas stove was too heavy to carry. And he didn’t want risk of burning the place down by starting a fire. So he ate it cold while sitting at the conference table with his back to the window. He drank