Tag: Calc (Chris Avery)

  • Blue Zone Zyracuse 07: An Old Friend

    “An Old Friend” by Chris Sinclair Read by Chris Sinclair Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Right-click to download.

  • I Hate Erin McGraw

    I hate Erin McGraw. I hate her and her smiley-faced ZED. I hate her and her smiley-faced ZED and that stupid nickname she gave me. I hate her, her ZED, my nickname, and how she acts during missions. I hate that I didn’t see that ghoul coming up from behind. I hate how close to…

  • Come What May

    Shit, shit, shit! How the fuck could I do that?! I threw my rifle to the ground as I fell to my knees and burst into tears. My hands covered my face, so all you could see were the X’s on my hands. Flea stood behind me and kicked my ass. She told me “you…

  • An Old Friend

    Rose Butler was one of the oldest members of the zone. Her husband died a few years before the outbreak. Her son Lawrence was the only family that she had left. Rose and I were neighbors before the outbreak and again here in the Zone. When the word came to evacuate, I made her come…

  • Set for Life

    It was only natural that hobbies would arise in the Zone. Once you got past the terror, the malnutrition, the lack of privacy, the cold, and the despair, there was the boredom. There was plenty of all six to go around. A few people tried knitting scarves and sweaters, some played cards, most just shivered…

  • After Math

    Christopher Avery went about his usual morning routine. He gathered his bag and headed off to work. He was a math teacher at a high school in the western suburbs. Chris walked out the door to his basement apartment and headed up the stairs. As he was leaving the building, one of his neighbors, Mrs.…