Of course people were scared. We used to enjoy it. Back in the good old days of Starbucks and H.B.O, we would flock to the cinema to see some hideously disfigured maniac gleefully tear through a pack of scantily clad teens. We would sit around campfires, relating tales of hook-handed killers and giant urban reptiles. We would strap ourselves into roller coasters and soar upside down at seventy miles an hour, screaming.
These days, when you heard screaming, you could be certain that it wasn’t because someone was enjoying themselves.
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She gave him everything he ever needed. Sometimes she had to work 60 hours a week. Sometimes she may have had to give a little more to her supervisors than she wanted to, but her son was never left without what he needed.
Not to say she gave him everything he wanted. He never did get that elephant, but she did everything she could to make sure he had what he needed.
$100 for a school trip to New York City: done.
$300 for ski club: it was a close one, but she managed to get the cash together.
He always had new shoes in the fall, a new coat in the winter.
If he needed to see a doctor, he did. After all, she took the factory job so that she could get the health care.
Everything he needed, he got.
New cleats for football: done.
A bullet between the eyes when he turned: done.
She gave him everything he needed.
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What? You’ve got to be kidding! There’s no way that broke the skin! That can’t be my blood!
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A Zombie’s worst nightmare.
It was bitterly cold, as it had been all month, and although it slowed Zack down considerably, it made searching for supplies a miserable task. I had been out with Geoff and Donna since eight that morning, and yeah, we’d found some canned goods and a little bottled water, but all any of us wanted to do was head back to the terminal, unpack our gear, and get warm.
Around noon, we were getting ready to call it a day, when Donna tapped Geoff on the shoulder and nodded to the one-storey house to our right. We both looked in the direction she had nodded in, and immediately saw the drapes sway shut in the window.
“What did you see?” asked Geoff.
“No detail, just movement at the window. It stopped when we all looked over.” Replied Donna, unclasping her ZED.
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“Oh good, you’re awake. How are you feeling?”
“I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. What happened? How did I get here?”
“I was hoping you’d be able to answer your first question. The rest of your squad brought the two of you back; she’s in real bad shape.”
“She who? What do you mean ‘the two of you’? Who else was hurt?” Allen pleaded with the doctor.
“Sasha,” Krezner replied. “She’ll be lucky if she lives through it, but then again, maybe she’ll be luckier if she doesn’t. We had our hands full with the two of you. I did the best I could to set your legs, but we lack the supplies to help Sasha. The best I can do is try to alleviate some of her pain.”
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