Valley of Death & Zombies
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Two thousand miles away, Dr. David Peter's woke up and groaned as he heard both his cell and house phone ringing. Rolling over, he grabbed the cell phone and muttered “Hello.”
“Is this Dr. Peters?” A irritated sounding woman's voice asked.
Yawning before answering, he said “Yes, who is this?”
“This is the switchboard, please hold while I connect your call.” The voice said. A click came over the line and then the sound of two men arguing.
“Hello!? Who is this?” He shouted.
“Oh, Dr. Peters, thank God. I think we've got a situation out here in Albuquerque.” Sergeant Paulson said in a slightly quaking voice.
“What is it?” He asked, instantly awake, his body trembling while standing up beside the bed.
“The camera feed for Autry's house shows what appears to be a mutilated woman's body on the porch with a bowl of candy scattered around her. No, wait maybe it was just a prank after all. She's moving now. Oh God! Her arm looks like several chunks of skin have been ripped or bitten off. She's staggering down the sidewalk, heading away from the house. I can't see her anymore.” Paulson waited a second and continued “Dr. Peter's, are you still there?”
Managing with great difficulty not to throw up, he spoke urgently into the phone. “Go to condition red, now! Follow the procedure in the field manual for contingencies! Do it now!”
“What if it was just a prank? It could have been.” The sergeant asked hopefully.
“If it's a prank I'll be the happiest mother fucker on Earth. Just go to condition red, now! I've got some calls to make. And, good luck.” Peters said before hanging up.
“What? What did he say?” The private asked, nervously holding and checking over his M-16 rifle.
The sergeant grabbed one of the red notebooks labeled Contingency Procedures, and muttered unintelligibly.
“What!?”
“I said, I hope your video game training against zombies helps.” Paulson said, calling the first number in a long list on the first page of the notebook.
“Fuck.” Private Copeland said, turning and staring out the trailer's window at the dark expanse of desert beyond.
Look for the completed novel Zombies of All Hallows Evil, today.
Also take a peek at The Tiniest Invaders, Book One Coexistence.