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jack_babalonThe phones dead but the internets still working? Fucking Atlanta! Still haven't been able to reach Vee or my parents. Starting to get nervous. Last I heard from them they said the outbreak hadn't reached Orlando yet but that there were reports of something flaring up across Jacksonville. Last I heard from Vee she was going to check in on her dad. That was earlier today before the phones went down. I went down to the supermarket this morning but couldn't make it past the parking lot. The place was a fucking nightmare. Cars backed up, honking, people screaming curses, accidents everywhere, mother fuckers running around in surgical masks and bandanas all pushing shopping carts stuffed with food. There were sirens coming from somewhere, helicopters squawking something through a loud speaker but nobody could make out what it was. When I started hearing gun shots from over by the Target I turned my happy ass on back. Got side tracked on the way home though. Saw a wreck just off Moreland. Some station wagon had careened up onto the curb to ram a telephone pole. I spotted one of my neighbors trying to help... the college girl from the building next door with the dykey white spiked hair. I pedaled over to give her a hand. As I got closer though I noticed quickly that there was something wrong with her. She was pounding the window to the drivers side furiously with the flat of her hands. It took me a second to notice but I realized that in the back of the station window were two kids - a boy and a girl - and they were screaming. They saw me and started pounding on the glass to the back cab.
Thats when my neighbor turned around and noticed me. Only she wasn't my neighbor anymore. She was one of those people. You know. The ones we keep seeing on tv and shit. They look different in person. On tv theres still something fake, y'know? something that just doesn't seem real about it no matter how much the reporters curse and scream and start crying. She had no eyes. YOu know? I mean they were there but they were all fogged up or something. I thought she was blind at first and that was what wrong but then she started sniffing the air and started staggering over to me. She was whimpering. You'd think they growl or some shit like in the movies but they don't they whimper, they just kind of weep like theyre sorry for what theyre about to do. Its hard to say what happened next. I started pedaling in the opposite direction and didnt lok back til I got a few blocks away. I rod through Littl five points, more by habit than anything else really. The placwe was a fucking graveyard. I went by the mini police precinct they got there. It waslooted as well. Even had a sign spray painted cross it - "ALL GONE!" First fucking time in my life I need a cop and its this shit right here. Went by the Magpie's place but remembered he's off in LA right now. Promoting his zombie movie of all things. I circled around the neighborhood some more, took some short cuts and zig zagged through the blocks just in case. Thought I saw another one. This guy was just staggering around in his back yard but then I herd him shouting, actually shotuing at Jesus to do somethign. He looked over at me and we kinda just stared at each other then I took off before he said something.
SO here I am. Theres been a lotta gun fire coming from the tracks down the block all day but its tapered off to a few rounds every hour or so. Still a lot of sirens going as well. I keep thinking about those kids Isaw in the back of the station wagon. Maybe they got out when my neighbor followed me. They could've right? Anyway, I've been thinking about it and I'm going to try to go find her. I know where her dad lives and I can get there before dark. Taking the kitchen knifes and the sword my dad got me from Mexico. Don't know what'll do with it to be honest. I thought about trying to make it to Bills but Bills too smart too have stuck around. Most likely hes got the family stuffed in the truck and they're making they're way to the hills or something.
Its funny how yeasterday I woke up and my biggest worry was writing the novel and paying my rent. D&D on sunday, swimming on saturday... now my whole life seems so distant, as if it happened to someone else. I'm scared. I guess we all are at that. Anyway, heading off now. With luck I'll be posting later from her place.
Mom, Dad if you're reading this... I love you. I'll be fine but y'know just in case. I have no regrets. The rest of you. My friends. Be well. Who knows maybe we'll have a laugh when this is all over huh?
-R
Thats when my neighbor turned around and noticed me. Only she wasn't my neighbor anymore. She was one of those people. You know. The ones we keep seeing on tv and shit. They look different in person. On tv theres still something fake, y'know? something that just doesn't seem real about it no matter how much the reporters curse and scream and start crying. She had no eyes. YOu know? I mean they were there but they were all fogged up or something. I thought she was blind at first and that was what wrong but then she started sniffing the air and started staggering over to me. She was whimpering. You'd think they growl or some shit like in the movies but they don't they whimper, they just kind of weep like theyre sorry for what theyre about to do. Its hard to say what happened next. I started pedaling in the opposite direction and didnt lok back til I got a few blocks away. I rod through Littl five points, more by habit than anything else really. The placwe was a fucking graveyard. I went by the mini police precinct they got there. It waslooted as well. Even had a sign spray painted cross it - "ALL GONE!" First fucking time in my life I need a cop and its this shit right here. Went by the Magpie's place but remembered he's off in LA right now. Promoting his zombie movie of all things. I circled around the neighborhood some more, took some short cuts and zig zagged through the blocks just in case. Thought I saw another one. This guy was just staggering around in his back yard but then I herd him shouting, actually shotuing at Jesus to do somethign. He looked over at me and we kinda just stared at each other then I took off before he said something.
SO here I am. Theres been a lotta gun fire coming from the tracks down the block all day but its tapered off to a few rounds every hour or so. Still a lot of sirens going as well. I keep thinking about those kids Isaw in the back of the station wagon. Maybe they got out when my neighbor followed me. They could've right? Anyway, I've been thinking about it and I'm going to try to go find her. I know where her dad lives and I can get there before dark. Taking the kitchen knifes and the sword my dad got me from Mexico. Don't know what'll do with it to be honest. I thought about trying to make it to Bills but Bills too smart too have stuck around. Most likely hes got the family stuffed in the truck and they're making they're way to the hills or something.
Its funny how yeasterday I woke up and my biggest worry was writing the novel and paying my rent. D&D on sunday, swimming on saturday... now my whole life seems so distant, as if it happened to someone else. I'm scared. I guess we all are at that. Anyway, heading off now. With luck I'll be posting later from her place.
Mom, Dad if you're reading this... I love you. I'll be fine but y'know just in case. I have no regrets. The rest of you. My friends. Be well. Who knows maybe we'll have a laugh when this is all over huh?
-R
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on 2008-06-14 01:02 pm (UTC)Btw, if you don't already listen to Pseudopod you should. You'd dig it.
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on 2008-06-17 06:28 pm (UTC)Never heard of them, I'll see what I can find... thanks for the recommendation.
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on 2008-06-23 04:07 am (UTC)Just counting on having a brain that wasn't first eaten away by the media to keep me from succumbing to the current crop of brain-drainers. That and the building's frat-house rejects not leaving the community/park gate open because they're about as aware as the dim-wits in Cloverfield.
Did you get that? Is the camera on? Mumble ... mumble ... do I ... mumble ... look good? Is that thing working?!? I just HATE when this happens ... Shit! They're breaking through! Don't run and lock the door ... let's just hide under the bed! No, let's run outside! No let's all take the stage and cry. No, let's .... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!