Zombie Outbreak: A Zombie Apocalypse Short Story Read Free

multiplying. Grandma was killed by Johnny, but Mikael shot Johnny before he ate her. She might be one of those things. She might be walking around as one of those monsters. I couldn’t stand it. I didn’t know much about life after death. I wasn’t sure if I believed in heaven or hell, but I knew I would rather see grandma dead than as one of those monsters.
    “I have to go,” I said and jumped to my feet.
    “She’s no longer human,” Mikael said, already knowing what I was thinking.
    “Exactly, that’s why I have to go to her.”
    “What are you talking about?” Candy asked. “Go to whom?”
    “Grandma was killed by one of those things. She’s probably one of them now.”
    “Oh God, no!” Candy said. “Poor Margaret. We have to go put her down. We can’t leave her out there like that.”
    “We aren’t going. We aren’t going to risk our lives for a monster.”
    “She’s my grandma, and she deserves to rest.” I headed for the door. “I don’t need you. I’ll do it on my own.”
    Mikael laughed. “What will you use: your bare hands? She’ll turn you before you can even hurt her,” he said. “Besides, it’s too dangerous to keep opening that door. I won’t stop you from going, but I won’t let you back in.”
    “I’d rather die out there alone than become like you,” I said and reached for the door.
    “Wait,” Candy said. She grabbed my arm to stop me.
    “I’m going.”
    I didn’t care if it was dangerous or stupid. If this is the way the world was, maybe I didn’t even care about living. Maybe death was better.
    “I know, but I’m going with you,” she said. “You won’t open the door again for me?” she asked Mikael.
    Mikael snarled at her. “Go, but if you get yourselves killed, don’t blame me.”
    “Are you going to let us back in?” she asked.
    He wanted to say he wouldn’t. It was clearly written in his eyes. He no longer saw Candy as his wife. He now saw her as an extra mouth to eat his food and drink his water, but he simply nodded. “Just make sure none of those things see you, and if you bring anyone with you, no one’s coming back in.”
    “Come on.” Candy grabbed the shotgun and a bag of supplies. “We’ll take the truck over there, put her down and come right back.”
    I followed Candy, but as the door shut behind us, I honestly had no idea if Mikael would ever let us back in. Outside those safe walls, life was vulnerable and lonely.
    We jumped in their beat-up pickup truck, and Candy started the engine. Before she put the car in reverse, she looked at me with a serious face.
    “Are you sure about this?” she asked. “You know it’s going to be tough.”
    I nodded. “I know, but I can’t stand the idea of her walking around like one of those things.” I thought of Grandma and smiled. “Besides, she’d ground me for life if she knew I let her be one of those dead ones.”
    “Okay,” Candy said and put the car in reverse.
    We drove in silence. Candy stared out the front window, and I watched out the side window. Everything looked completely normal. There were no dead ones walking around, grass still grew, trees still stood tall, the world looked alive. A rabbit hopped down the side of the road as if it was just another perfect day. We turned down grandma’s driveway, and still, everything looked the same, except for one thing. Grandma wasn’t standing on the front porch, waving to me. She always greeted me at the porch when I came home.
    Candy parked the car and we hopped out.
    “She was over there.” I pointed by the barn. “I don’t see her there now.”
    Candy motioned me to follow her, and we headed over by the barn. We walked completely around the barn, but didn’t see her. There weren’t many places for her to hide. I glanced at the house, but all the doors were still shut, and I doubted a dead one could open and shut doors. I was so afraid that she had wondered off, and I’d never find her.
    “Maybe she got inside the house,”