Slow Burn (Book 5): Torrent

by Adair, Bobby

  “Do you think the Whites could get to us there?”

  “I don’t know, Murphy. I just know every time we underestimate them, every time we think we’re safe, it all goes to shit.”

  “Ah, Pessimistic Zed. It’s good to have you back, man.”

  I shook my head and smiled. “I’m just trying to work the Murphy plan. Shouldn’t you be encouraging me?”

  “I was.”

  “Whatever.”

  As the sky above us blackened enough for the stars to sparkle, Murphy said, “I wonder how many normal people survived.”

  “I don’t know.”

  “Mr. Mays would have been the last one we saw, right?”

  “There were a bunch of them holed up at Camp Mabry.”

  “But they’re all dead now, right?”

  I shook my head emphatically. “We don’t know that.”

  “We saw the bones, man.”

  “Yeah, we saw a lot of bones. But Freitag and Harris got out with that skinny guy, what’s-his-name. More must have gotten away.”

  Murphy shrugged. “Yeah, I suppose so. You think there might be some all around then, just hiding?”

  “Hiding seems to be the best solution. Or getting out of town. Holy shit. I forgot about the family we helped up on 183 the other day.”

  Murphy smiled. “Yeah, I totally forgot about that. Zed, I feel good about that.” Murphy stopped walking and turned to look at me. “This is a big, fucked up world now. But I feel good about that. We did the right thing.”

  I never was the sentimental type, nor the enthusiastic type, but Murphy’s happiness over the good deed rubbed off. It was something to feel good about. It was a sad little tragedy in the making that, because of our intervention, had a happy ending. Without the vocabulary to express how good it did feel, I simply said, “Yeah.”

  With smiles buoyed by that one act of kindness, we walked down the dark road toward the other side of the lake.

  The End

  Book 6 in the series will be out in early fall of 2014.

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  Other Books by Bobby Adair

  Horror

  Slow Burn: Zero Day, book 1

  Slow Burn: Infected, book 2

  Slow Burn: Destroyer, book 3

  Slow Burn: Dead Fire, book 4

  Slow Burn: Torrent, book 5

  Slow Burn Box Set: Destroyer and Dead Fire

  And coming soon…a joint collaboration with another zombie author…

  Satire

  Flying Soup

  Text copyright © 2014, Bobby L. Adair

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