When There's No More room In Hell: A Zombie Novel Read Free Page B

closer to the doors in the hope of getting help first.
    Everyone has taken to wearing surgical masks, to help with the smell and hopefully to stop us fr om catching the flu; more like Plague. We have decided to keep away from the windows due to the fact that the sight of us seems to excite them in the hope of receiving some kind of help from us.
    At first we pleaded with them, told them that we had no supplies and that we couldn’t do anything for them, but that just seemed to fuel their anger and they doubled their efforts to get inside.
    I fear that it’s only a matter of time until they break through the barricades and then we will become infected. Either that or, we starve to death.....
    Steve rubbed his eyes. He was starting to get a headache , and filling his head full of silly stories from the internet wasn’t helping him. He clicked to another site and continued to flick through stories, reports and blogs.
    Speculation was rife. Theories were all over the internet on what was causing it and what was being done about it. All that Steve could understand was that there was no cure or vaccine for the virus.
    One group believed that the virus came from a pesticide that had somehow caused the common flu virus to mutate. They claimed that the pesticide was genetically engineered by the Americans to aggressively hunt down and kill mosquitoes and their larvae. They had then released it in the tropical areas of South America and Africa and once it came into contact with the flu virus, it caused a mutation, creating the violent flu symptoms in some of the sick.
    Another group took a similar stance, but with a cosmic twist. They believed that the common flu virus had been mutated by gamma radiation from a faraway supernova on the other side of the galaxy. When some scientists and enthusiasts challenged them on this, they were unable to produce any solid evidence of a supernova having recently been witnessed and the scientists discredited them outright. It occurred to Steve though, It’s a big arse sky and not all of it can be watched at the same time. Any theory is as good as another .
    On the 21 st December 2013, not long after the invasion of Iran, a probe that had been kept secret until then, returned to Earth after having landed on and taken samples from Europa; one of Jupiter’s many moons. Why they kept it secret until its return was anyone’s guess, but some believed that it was because Europa is said to be the strongest chance of being a life sustaining planet in the Solar System other than our own. The probe had drilled its way through fifteen kilometres of ice to a liquid water ocean beneath its hard frozen surface. Then, on completion of its mission it had returned to Earth. People were now speculating that it had brought something back in the samples.
    All manner of reasons were being thrown about, including, as to be expected, the religious versions. Some believed that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had arrived; Pestilence, War, Famine, and that the final one – Death – was the Anti-Christ in the form of the new American President, who came appearing as a saviour and a man of righteousness.
    Since the beginning of the millennium, the world seemed to have been steadily falling apart. Aside from all the wars, there were the natural disasters. There were droughts, famine, disease and earthquake after earthquake.
    The tsunami of December 26 th 2004 that originated from the Indian Ocean killed more than a quarter of a million people, and it was closely followed by Hurricane Katrina, which came up from the Gulf of Mexico and laid waste to much of Louisiana, particularly New Orleans. Each year was followed with more storms and earthquakes, Haiti, New Zealand and Japan. Japan was hit by an earthquake that measured 9.0 on the seismograph and was closely followed by a tsunami that devastated much of its eastern coast. After that, the Japanese Nuclear Reactors began to fail up and down the country as their cooling