They weren’t exactly children, not really, but having two young people in the house was more trouble than she needed. Though Eric was a kind hearted boy he’d proven difficult. He ate so much you’d think he was a hamster storing it in his cheeks for the winter, and it seemed that at some point eve...
We searched all through the night, and before we knew it the weak morning sun was looking down on us. As the day wore on, we combed the fields of knee-high grass. We searched through thorny bushes and inspected any tangled undergrowth that was big enough to conceal a boy. The sunlight changed f...
When we got closer I saw that it was the Vasey campers. They looked terrible. Their bodies swayed in the wind like weeds and their faces were gaunt. They wouldn't have looked out of place marching with the infected. Sana stood at the head of the Vasey group. Her hair looked like wild tree roots...
My face was burning and my blood was boiling in my veins. My mind was so clouded by a fog of anger that I didn’t even look where I was going; as long as I got away, that was all that mattered. I put my foot on a stone wall and hopped over into the field. The earth was sodden and my foot was cov...