Not the usual roosters calling to one another across town. Not the clock blaring in my ears, but songbirds in the woods along the river. I rolled over gently in the bed. Cindy was still asleep. I could just make out her face in the dim light. I padded down the hall to the bathroom, listening to t...
Already, the bucket tractors were in play, scooping up killed Zeds like so much burning shit. They dumped the corpses into the backs of the city dump trucks. The first full load followed two backhoes out of the town to the south. The crew would find a spot to dig a new hole on top of a hill in th...