Project Dakota: Rising of the dead
Now, it was a gauntlet of the dead.
I passed Mrs. Gable, the sweet, elderly woman who used to share her precious hoard of hard candies with the children. She was curled on her side, her floral-print housecoat soaked in blood, her sightless eyes staring at a crack in the wall. I passed Leo, a hulking, gentle giant who had been our best scavenger. He’d been cut down from behind, his massive frame collapsed in a heap, a pool of blood so wide I had to leap over it. With each familiar, lifeless face, my heart tightened another vicious notch, a fist of grief and terror clenching in my chest. A wave of nausea rose, bitter and hot, in my throat. I swallowed it down, my vision blurring with unshed te
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