บททั้งหมดของ I Died Fat in The Apocalypse,Now I'll Make them pay!: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 5

My husband looked me up and down like a piece of luggage and decided I wasn't worth the weight."Step out, Tamsin."I thought I'd misheard. Behind us, the dead were tearing through the fence, close enough that I could hear their jaws working. In front of me stood the cargo lift to the plane, the only way out we had found in ninety days. I was in its doorway with forty pounds of our food on my back, and my heart was pounding with something close to joy.Then the joy went cold."What?""The lift only takes four," Caspian said. "You'll slow us down. You'll eat our supplies. You're too fat, Tamsin. There's no room for you."The words reached my ears, but my body didn't understand them. I just stood there, gripping the gate, my face burning, as if the shame had arrived before the fear.Supplies. I had crawled through a ruined pharmacy on my stomach for those supplies. I had walked at the back of the line every night so that if something grabbed us, it would grab me first."Cas, I'm your wi

My hand and a stranger's closed on the last box of tourniquets at the same moment, and neither of us let go."Let go. I need those.""So do I.""Someone threatened to kill me yesterday," I said. That finally pulled his eyes off the box and onto my face.Tall, broad through the shoulders, dark hair cut short, a gray T-shirt worn thin at the collar."I win,” I announced with a smug grin. "Strong argument," he said. "But I've been watching you throw this store into a cart for twenty minutes. I was going to wait politely.”"That's the least polite thing anyone's said to me today.""It's only noon."His mouth didn't smile. His eyes did, briefly. I let go of the box."Take it," I said. "I'll find another.""There is no other. You've bought everything in a three-store radius." He glanced into my cart, then into his own, parked against the wall, and I realized with a strange jolt that he held almost exactly the same things. Water drums. Rope. Suture kits. A hand-crank radio.We both stared."H

I walked into the Evercrest Shelters showroom with a signed contract in my hand and found my ex-husband's family begging at the sales counter."Your card was declined again, Mr. Rook," the salesman, Mr. Sable, said politely. "As were the other two.""It's a temporary freeze!" Caspian's voice cracked. He looked thinner. The gold watch was gone from his wrist, and his shirt hung wrong, as if it had been borrowed. "My father will clear it by tomorrow. Just hold the unit. The family unit. The one for six.""That unit is no longer available.""What do you mean no longer available?""It's been reserved."Mrs. Rook swayed, clutching her handbag. Uncle Barrett loomed behind her, jaw clenched, one hand shoved in his pocket. And at the edge of the counter, pale and smaller than I remembered, stood Odalys. She wore yesterday's clothes. Her hair hung uncombed. There was no pearl in her throat.I stopped three steps from them. For a moment nobody noticed me.Then Odalys looked up.Her whole face c