“Hey Leo, I have a question.”
“Yes, Vic?” She asked, turning around. She was naked; the sight of her almost made me completely lose my train of thought.
“What happened to you out there in the back field yesterday?” I asked after a pause.
“I tripped over a bloody rabbit. The damn thing bolted out of the grass as I was running, I swerved, but caught it with my toe and I went flying, hit my head on a rock and blacked out.”
We both got up out of bed and got dressed, both starving like we hadn’t eaten in months. As Leo was tying her shoes and I was pulling my shirt on, Max burst into the room.
“Daddy! I killed the bad-guys. They were biting you and I told them to let go but they wouldn’t.”
“You did great, Max monster. I’m sorry you had to do that. I’m sorry you had to see that.” I said, hugging him more tightly than I ever had before.
We walked out to breakfast, where Mom, Marshall, and John were already seated.
“Glad to see you two up and around. Leo, I got seven-ninety-three!” John bragged.
“You beat me, I only had six-ninety-seven,” replied Leo.
We all had a good laugh about their competition, until Marshall spoke.
“A thousand fourteen for me. Thanks Vic for pinning them up for me!”
We all roared with laughter. Here we were together as a family, safe. For now.
Epilogue.
Life was so different now, but it was also the same. I was in love with a beautiful woman. It was different, but the same. My son was happy. Life wasn’t easy before, and it wasn’t easy now, but we all worked together to live, to love, and to enjoy the precious gifts we’ve been given.
That’s the story of how this all started. I’m fifty-two years old, but I haven’t aged a day in the last twelve years. Leo is forty, and still looks exactly as I met her on her twenty-eighth birthday. Max is almost sixteen, and looks like a normal teenage boy. I’m not sure if or when he’ll stop aging, because I don’t really have any idea what’s happened to me. He has normal teenage boy thoughts, and normal teenage boy dreams. Marshall and John are similar to us.
There are just over four hundred people living in Sharonton. The entire town showed up for my mother’s funeral last month, she was seventy-eight when she died peacefully in her sleep. At the wake celebrating her life, someone voted to name our settlement; it was unanimously agreed that it should be named after her. I think she’d accomplished her purpose and was ready to rest. She fed this entire community for the first year and a half, until the crops were in and we’d gathered enough cows and goats. She’d found and caught our first pair of chickens after we recovered the first chicken coops, and we now have over two thousand hens on the chicken farm a mile downwind. She founded our first school, from which Max was about to graduate.
The entire village, almost six-thousand-five hundred acres worth is surrounded by a twenty foot stonewall twenty four and a half miles long, modeled after the Great Wall of China. The wall took us almost ten years to build. We still have sentries, we each spend a week taking a shift living on the wall, because we still encounter zombies, sometimes large hordes, but we live in relative safety.
This isn’t the end. Safety and security didn’t start after Max ended that huge wave of zombies. It was the very next day that Frye showed up again with more bad news, but it’s the end for now. It’s my shift on the wall next week.
Until next week, as Leo would say, “Keep Surviving.”
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PUBLISHED BY:
Kirk Allmond
What Zombies Fear:
A Fathers Quest
Copyright © 2011 by Kirk Allmond
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What Zombies Fear Series of Books
A Father’s Quest
The Maxists
The Gathering
Fracture (Due July 2012)