I bring the gun to the Undead charging me, but it’s too late. They have moved with an eerie speed. They pounce, ripping into my flesh. My gun fires uselessly into the ceiling, and is then knocked out my hand. I hear it slide across the floor.
Gripping the vial, my thumb depresses the button causing the needle to spring out. I push the needle in my flesh, and instantly feel the fluid spurt into my body. The empty metal vial tumbles from my hand, rolling lazily away. I hear myself screaming into the office.
A woman bites into my wrist pulling out sinewy veins. Arteries burst open, spurting her face with blood. She looks pleased by this turn of events, devouring even more greedily.
I scream and scream into the dark emptiness. I am surprise that I can hear the inhuman growling sounds from these Undead over my agonizing screams. There’s more Undead flooding into the room. All of them expect a feast is at hand.
As darkness quickly folds over me, in my throes of my horrific pain, I remember my father’s guttural sound. The sound my father made right before I shot him. It’s now clear. He was trying to speak. He was saying to me, “Amen to Rot.” He wanted me to remember, that I am the last hope.
That growling is now becoming deafening. It rumbles into a room filled with Undead.
I realize that noise is coming from me.
THE AUTHOR
Bryce Bentley Summers is a psychologist, author, and founder of Queer Sense theory. Queer Sense is a theory that explains how people form attitudes toward people who represent a queer spectrum of sexual and gender identities. The nonfiction work Queer Sense: Where Do Our Attitudes Come From? A Revolutionary Theory for Educators, Parents, Advocates, and Anyone LGBT, is set to be released in 2016-17.
Bryce authors under the pen names Bryce B. Summers, Ph.D., B. Bentley Summers, and Bryce Bentley Summers. He has authored young adult and new adult zombie apocalypse novels. The Amen to Rot series of stories, which includes the final piece, Nyte God, are dark fantasy (sci-fi) stories that pit a group of hero youths against evil alien invaders. Rotville is a new adult sci-fi (psychological thriller) about a human subject who is super enhanced to make a profit for the military but turns into a hero, saving a group of people trapped in the nearby quarantined city. The Zombie Squad is about four teens who find themselves in New Orleans as a zombie apocalypse unfolds.
Fresh Meat is a supernatural psychological horror piece of literature with adult themes. The places and characters of Fresh Meat are caricatures of the prison systems and society, each representing a concept of evil or empathy. This novel parallels the institution of American slavery with the man-versus-punk political system that defines modern-day prisons. Follow the cruel Warden E.J. Jones as he comes face-to-face with a new arrival simply known as Punk and discovers strange occurrences unfolding in his prison.
Bryce’s newest novel is a new adult supernatural thriller titled Hans Wolff of Wehr Hamlet: The Legend Begins. Part of the Wehr-Wolff series, this novel will be published in 2015.
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