All Chapters of The Apocalypse Is Him : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Nina had barely finished reading the alert about the missing bodies when Elise snatched her phone, skimmed the message, and shoved it back at her with an expression that suggested the government had personally ruined her morning.“Brilliant, absolutely brilliant, because apparently people can steal dead bodies from a hospital now, and we’re still expected to go shopping like sensible citizens instead of moving to the middle of nowhere and living off the chickens.”“You would starve in two days because you’d eat the chickens before they laid any eggs,” Nina replied, following her into the supermarket car park. “Give me the list before you lose it, and try not to embarrass me in public for at least twenty minutes.”Inside, the place looked as if somebody had announced the end of the world and forgotten to tell the staff. Shoppers shoved bottled water into their trolleys, a man argued over the last pack of batteries, and a woman near the entrance was screaming at an employee who had refu

Elise was still staring at Nina's hand when Nina reached for the bedroom light, and the moment the room brightened, Elise twisted away so violently that her shoulder struck the wall. She kept rubbing her mouth with the back of her wrist, smearing fresh blood across her chin, while her eyes followed Nina's fingers like there was something crawling beneath the skin."Elise, you're scaring the absolute shit out of me, so either tell me what's happening or let me get Mum," Nina said, keeping her voice low because shouting at her best friend suddenly felt like a stupid way to get herself bitten."I'm hungry, Nina, and don't start offering me toast because I can smell the blood in your hand and it's making my mouth hurt." Elise swallowed hard, then covered her face as tears slipped between her fingers. "What the hell is wrong with me? I don't want to smell you like that."Nina's palm still had a thin red scrape from the supermarket, barely worth a plaster, and she held it up to show Elise t

Nina couldn't understand why the man in black was walking toward her while an infected creature hung frozen inches from Rebecca's neck, its ruined mouth stretched wide enough to show the bloody gaps where its teeth had broken. She could hear her own breathing scraping through her throat, feel the sticky blood beneath her torn sleeve, and see Daniel gripping Rebecca's shoulder so tightly that his fingers had twisted the fabric of her blouse, but neither of them could move, not even when Nina tried to pull her mother away from the thing that had been seconds away from ripping her throat open. The entire street looked like somebody had taken a photograph of the world's worst nightmare, except the photograph smelled of burning rubber, open wounds, and the shit Nina had nearly stepped in while escaping her house.Doom kept walking as though none of it concerned him, his black shoes moving across the bloodstained pavement without disturbing a single drop, and Nina found herself staring at h

By the time they reached the veterinary clinic, Nina's arms were aching from wrestling with Elise, whose restraints had twisted around her wrists while she kept throwing herself toward anything that moved, and the sight of the familiar blue sign hanging crooked above the entrance nearly made Nina cry with relief. The place had always smelled of disinfectant, wet fur, and whatever disgusting treats Elise used to buy for Oscar whenever they brought him in, but now the windows were dark, the front door stood half open, and a brown stain had dried across the step beneath the handle. Daniel shoved his shoulder against the side entrance until the swollen wood gave way with a crack, sending dust into Rebecca's face while she cursed him for making enough noise to wake every dead bastard in the neighbourhood."Everybody get inside before those things follow us here, because I am not spending another afternoon running around the streets while my daughter tries to bite somebody's face off," Rebe

Daniel slammed the hatch down with both hands just as Martin's bloody fingers curled over the metal edge, and the impact made something crack beneath the floor without stopping the security guard from clawing at the opening. His nails scraped against the hatch, leaving thin red smears while Daniel shoved his shoulder against it and shouted for somebody to help him before the bastard pulled himself through. Lucy grabbed Daniel around the waist, bracing her boots against the examination table, and together they dragged it across the hatch until its heavy steel legs caught against the tiled floor. Nina could still see Martin's fingers wriggling beneath the table, bent at angles that made her stomach twist, and she kept staring at the hospital bracelet as though the name printed on it might suddenly change into somebody else's. Martin Cole had been alive at that supermarket. He had been frightened, sweating, begging them to help him while blood ran down his arm, and Nina remembered the