Zombie Outbreak: A Zombie Apocalypse Short Story (5 page)
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Authors: Trip Ellington
“I think we’re supposed to go there,” I said and headed for the door.
The door was already slightly open, and as I reached out for the handle, it burst open and a dead one lunged at me. It tried to snap its teeth at me, but its jaw was broken, hanging by just a few pieces of flesh. I screamed just as I heard Candy scream as another one attacked her.
“They’re everywhere,” Steve shouted.
I grabbed the knife I had and shoved it through the dead one’s eye socket. It stumbled backward, and I turned to escape. The area was filled with them now. Candy and Steve were fighting them off each other. I ran in to help them. Together, the three of us fought back. I found a crowbar on a box and began smashing in the skulls of the dead ones, making my way toward Steve and Candy. Finally, I reached them.
“Run,” I said, and bashed another dead one’s head in.
The three of us broke through the dead ones and headed toward the city. We stumbled passed the empty tents that were supposed to be safety but now were stained with blood and brains.
“Where are we going?” Candy asked.
“Does it matter?” I asked.
It didn’t matter. Nowhere mattered anymore. Nowhere was safe. We were running away from death and toward death all at once. Tomorrow would come, just as it always had, but we would be different, we would be tougher, we would be colder, or we would be the dead ones.
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In the not-too-distant future, the worlds of online virtual reality gaming and the real world have grown seamlessly together. Millions of people around the world now live in a constant divergence of two worlds, one real, one fantasy, and sometimes the line between grows blurry. One of these people is Jake, a young boy with a mother who mistreats him and classmates who ignore him. Jake chooses instead to spend his days in Xaloria, a fantasy world he created.
One day, when Jake's mother tells him of a major family decision he had no knowledge of before, he decides enough is enough. Along with two friends, Jake chooses to lose himself in Xaloria, the world he created and designed himself.
However, all in Xaloria is not what Jake has expected. And when Jake discovers that the world he built is growing and changing on its own, Jake's life begins to grow more exciting...and dangerous...than he ever would have expected.
The line where fantasy and reality blurs has always been unclear. But what happens when it is erased completely?
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Cover Illustration by Yip Lee