“My name is Joe Harley and I’m looking for my brother, Alex.”
Joe. It was Joe! “Oh my God that’s my brother!” I slid down the ladder to the deck and turned up the radio. Lucy came out from the living room, a look of surprise on her face.
“…was camping with his friends in Wales when all of this happened. So we’re hoping he’s OK. We can’t find him on the Survivor Board but he might not be in a camp. He doesn’t like the army or police. That’s just Alex, you know. Anyway, Alex, if you’re out there, we’re all OK. Mom and Dad are here too. Get in contact if you can. Say hello to Mike from us. We love you.”
Hot stinging tears rolled down my cheeks.
It was Joe.
He was alive.
Somewhere out there, Joe was alive. And Mom and Dad too.
Alive.
“Oh my God,” I said, crying into my hands.
Lucy put an arm around me. “I’m so happy for you, Alex. They’re safe.”
They were in a camp. They had somehow ended up in a camp. That wasn’t safe. Out here, this was safe. The camps weren’t safe. Once the millions of zombies left the cities in search of more victims, they would travel into the countryside where the military had set up the camps. Huge concentrations of people would draw their attention. They would overwhelm the survivors by sheer numbers. Joe and my parents wouldn’t stand a chance. They were fenced in somewhere in a military compound and it was only a matter of time before the zombies got to them.
“I have to go and get them,” I said, looking towards the distant mainland.
“What? Alex, you can’t be serious. You have no idea where they are.”
“He mentioned something about a Survivor Board. If I can find out what that is, it might tell me where I can find them.”
“You know how many zombies there are on the mainland. This is crazy!”
“I have to do it.”
I climbed back up onto the bridge and turned The Big Easy towards the shore. I remembered the first dream I had on this boat, a dream of sailing across miles of ocean to reach an island plagued by zombies.
Now it was going to be real.
No longer just a dream.
A living nightmare.
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Copyright
RAIN: A ZOMBIE NOVEL
by Shaun Harbinger
Copyright 2014 Shaun Harbinger
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All characters are works of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons living, dead or undead is purely coincidental.