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Debbie
(© Rich Restucci)

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"They’re behind us, behind us!"  A man runs past clutching a small boy.  "Garret!  Garret we have to go now!"  Undoubtedly the voice of the camera man. The camera shuts off, and the anchor is back on the screen in a second.

"That was Garret Rhodes, reporting from St Mary’s Hospital.  Let’s all say a prayer for the folks trapped there."  He shuffles papers nervously, and looks off screen, "We can only hope that the current…"

Debbie gets up and walks to her window, pulling the drapes back to let in the sun.  Smoke plumes and helicopters can be seen in the distance.  Eyes wide, she runs to the phone and tries to call her sister Lea, when there’s a screeching sound outside.  She runs to the window again.  Lea and her boyfriend jump out of a beat up black Volvo and run up the steps.  Debbie’s door buzzer sounds and she pushes the button to let them in. They must have taken the stairs quickly, because her sister is banging on the door in four seconds.

"Debbie!  Debbie it’s me, let us in!"  Debbie throws open the door to let them inside. They look panicked.

"What’s happening!"  Debbie demands.

"There’s some crazy fuckers out there!"  shouts Tim, Lea’s boyfriend.  He has a bandage made of gauze and duct tape on his right forearm, the blood seeping through.  "They’re eating people!"

"We’re leaving Debbie," Lea tells her, "we’re getting out of the city, get your stuff and pack light."

That was all she needed to hear. They are out the door and in the car in ten minutes. There are other people packing vehicles and moving frantically as well.

They make it three hundred meters before Debbie sees her first infected. The girl looks like a kindergartener.  Just a baby.  She is trudging down the road, dragging a badly mauled leg. Tim slows the Volvo to see if it’s just a hurt kid, but as soon as they see the blood-red eyes, and horribly mutilated extremities, they know the child is infected. The girl makes a lunge for the car, and Tim stomps the accelerator. The car lurches forward and smashes into a utility pole.  No one is wearing their seatbelts, but the impact isn’t horrible.  Just enough to crush the radiator.

Evacuation is necessary. The little infected girl is coming, and there are other forms further away.  A school bus is parked close by, and the screams of the children inside are like nails in Debbie’s soul. They extricate themselves and Debbie rushes to the bus.  She goes through the open door and is immediately assaulted by the coppery stench of blood.  A large man is hunched over a small form, holding it close and munching on it. The back of the bus is filled with terrified, screaming children, who have moved as far from the carnage as possible. Tim pushes his way on the bus. Tim reaches down and grabs a gun from the infected policeman’s holster. The infected doesn’t notice, Debbie never even realized he was a cop. Tim fires into the infected man’s back at point blank range, the roar of the gun is deafening in the enclosed space. Tim walks past the infected man to the kids.  "It’s gonna be ok," he tells them, "I’ve got you now, he can’t hurt you."  The kids quiet a little. Tim reaches the back of the bus and Debbie notices the infected man getting up.  She shrieks a warning just as eleven little arms point back the way Tim had come and the screaming starts again. Tim whips around to see the dead cop advancing. The dead man is carrying his victim, what’s left of a small boy. Tim fires a round through the cop’s chest, blood and bits of the cop come spewing out his back, and Debbie hears something that sounds like a bee zip past her right ear. The front window of the bus shatters with an audible crack!  Safety glass rains down in small pebbles.  Debbie ducks behind a seat.

Tim fires again and again, but the cop won’t go down. The gun clicks empty and the cop is still advancing.  With an inhuman roar, Tim charges the cop and bowls him over. Tim lands on the cop and straddles him, holding the cop’s head on the floor of the bus. The infected is scratching deep furrows in Tim’s arm and face. The young man raises the pistol over his head and brings it down on the nose of the infected.  He smashes the weapon in the man’s face over and over until the man stops moving. Tim looks up and sees Lea on her back at the front of the bus.  She has been shot once in the chest, just left of her right breast. Tim screams something and runs to her, cradling her.  She is alive but weak, blood bubbling at her lips.  Debbie gets up from her hiding place and notices her sister’s predicament. Debbie starts to cry. She looks out the window and sees numerous staggering forms heading their way. 

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