Zombiepoca? e
20080529
&? ;May 29, 2008
I? one of the ? ? ? urvi? ? ? me, my ? ? ister, and anoth? oman, holed up in a large old house ? ? ? ? ? generally acknowledged among the three ? s th? his would be? ? t night; the? ading al? had adapted to ? h's ? ystem and instead of fac? ? ? hey now came in the form of hund? of smal? ? hat looked like ? oss ? een ? , ticks, and bee? , maybe two mill? ers long. They could? ip a? pse of its flesh in a ma? of ? tes, com? ely pain? ly--except, of c? e, f? he horror of being c? med ? e if? ? e conscious.
We all agree? ? ? t fo? to ? o bed. We all kn? e wouldn? ake up in the morning. For my si? and I, ? as a kin? s.
I put her to bed, swaddled? in blan? , kissed? good night. Then I trudged ? ? ? s to? mall lof? here I had laid out a thick comforter folded? ? ? to ? ? a m? ess, a flannel blanket, and a pi? . I got bed and prepared to sleep.
And couldn't. I lay awake there, ? he dark, thinking about my life, and? it had come to ? ? felt real, ? hough I were? ? reparing to die.? hought a? the? ? ? ound me and how ? ould be a part of me by morning and ? ? ick ? ? y th? his was it, once and? all. I ? like I was on death? , knowing th? ? e mo? of my death as an i? ctable, ? itable fact.
An hour ? wo l? , I ? d a scrabbling. Something moved ? he darkness at my feet. The ? ? cantilevere? ? ? ? ? case, servin? the ceiling. There was a clicking and a? dding, a? hatethe thin? ? slowly pulled itself in? iew.
? as enormous, brown, and shiny, but looked sick. ? s of? ? apace were a dul? sty red, and? head looked like a ? sly ? orted caricature of ? man skull. I? pan style="font-style: italic;">wheezed. ? e were enormous, gra? l, b? ? ? ? res on its back ? looked like? taken wings. It ? led as it circled the foot o? makeshift bed, befo? uddenly,? robably collapsing and dissolving in? he dark.
I lay back a? aited for sleep, taking comfort ? he fact ? whatever happened, I'd never wa? p again./>
I wo? p.
Da? ? hini? ? ? ? indows next to me. Baffled, I looked? n on the flannel bla? ? ering me, and sa? mero? iny black bo? . They had all died.
I wo? p, a? houg? ? self? pan style="font-style: italic;">? ? ? his nigh? e shit. No more ? a rolls before bed. Fell back asleep again.
I was ? ? ? , among ? ? ? all pine trees, ? ing ? op of a modified mil? ? ? . In front of me? a chain-link fence, and on the other si? as a road. Some ? went past from time to time, and information fi? ed into my m? ? ? he dream? ? ned out ? ? somason? ? ? e the on? ecies th? ? enomorphs couldn't c? breed wi? ucce? lly.? ? ? s to create ? brid? ulted in death f? he o? ring? />
I had been wrong. T? hree of us hadn't be? he only ? ? s. The human race was in such go? hape the? s channe? ere stil? , the military h? ? up into private mils, and our compound was ? ded by o? uch. Still, nobody could be ? ted; the? ere ? ors ? he fence that picked up ? ain ? uencies, includi? hose created by the xeno? hs' carapace? bbing together.
I needed to have ? ? e di? sion? ? ? tle ? er, who ? his point had become? ery fine? amil? y fighter in? own right. We maske? r talks ? haki? ? ear ? ? enna on the Hummer back and ? ? ? ibrations of the? enna? erfered with the sen? in a blaze of dancing e? ric-blue lines. ? alked about how ? ? robably time that we left the co? nd, ? we could ta? ith us, how we could tak? , whuld ? ent us from taking it, h? e could ? ent them from doing so, and ? her or n? he aliens had been completely wiped out.
? then, a xen? ph d? ed out of th? ees and made? the pri? building in the enclave? />
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20080505
? 5, 2008
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I? ? off before it could grow into my flesh and made? un for it, dodging h? ? and agg? ive birds. There? a c? demarcation in the vegetation betwe? he carnivorous life and the safe zone, but b? e I could reach it, something sharp
I dealt the bird (which looked like ? eam-and-choc? e-colored jay wi? hite eyes and which could ma? ? ? ural? ell)? eral goo? trong blows,? it ? inue? ? tack und? ed. ? whe? managed to dig a partic? ly large gobbet out ? per arm did it l? p mo? arily to land on the ground and dig in.
That was when the oth? hree? acked.
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