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Authors: Liz Roberts
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why burden others.
“I just couldn’t sleep anymore, thought I would get some air and check the place out. I can’t believe how quiet this place is around here. It seems unnatural not seeing a zombie shuffling around.” Jill said with a face of disgust.
“This won’t last, it never does. They will all be back. It’s like they hit us in waves. A couple days on, couple days off. You’ll get used to it.” Casey said with a shrug.
“So that means your inviting me to stay I take it?”
“Every able body helps, you and that kid will make 114 able bodies.” Casey said and offered her a chair. They sat in companionable silence until Jill spoke, having all sorts of questions about the integrity of the place, wanting to know what was reinforced where and giving her own ideas in the mix.
“Do you guys have all these stores connected?” She indicated the long strip mall like buildings.
“Only on the roofs, we built platforms going to each, so you don’t have to run down and back up every time you change a position.”
“What else do you guys do here?”
“Now that the weather is nicer, we go on supply runs, try to stock up on meds, food, water, fuel, pretty much anything. We do some searching in the winter too, it’s actually safer. Zeds tend to freeze when it’s cold enough, we were having a problem of our own. People getting lost in storms and vehicles getting stuck” Casey explained.
“You should invest in snow mobiles. Do you ever find people when you go out?” She asked quietly.
“Snow mobiles are actually on our “to do” list as well. We use to find pockets of people, but not for a long time now. Sometimes we’ll see stores that have picked over when we make a return trip, so we know there are others alive out there, but they never find us.
“Do you search?”
“Use to. A lot. Everyone here has someone they are looking for, and it was very chaotic trying to get organized when all anyone wanted to do was go and look for their family. So we’d send out search parties, every day we did this, started sending out maybe 30 people, everyone wanted to help. But then as the months went by and our numbers dwindled with causalities people stopped wanting to go as much.” Silence descended now.
“I think some people just gave up hope.”
“I haven’t.” Jill stated. “I know my family is still out there, they are strong and smart, we’ve been planning our survival years before this happened.” Jill chuckled to herself thinking back about all the mock scenarios they talked about over and over again. “Unfortunately I happened to be out of town when this all went down.” Jill played with the little gravel pebbles on the roof. Casey made a loud scoffing sound at this statement.
“What?” She looked up incredulously.
“Your so naïve, how did you manage to survive this long? Your family is dead, just like mine, just like everyone else’s here.” He replied with sheer disgust.
“Aren’t you just a happy ray of sunshine? Excuse me for having hope and not wanting to think of something happy once in a while.”
“I just don’t want you diluting yourself and then you end up dead because you were careless.”
“Whatever.” She said turning away from him.
“So have you ever thought of expanding to those apartments back there?” Jill asked quizzically.
“Gee no. Is that what that dwelling is over there?”
“Don’t have to be a dick. A simple no, would do.” Jill said. Both Casey and Jill continued to look everywhere but at each other in the now pregnant silence that has befallen them.
“I’m not sure we have the man power, and not knowing what’s in there seems risky.” Casey said, being the first one to end the long silence.
“Well I don’t think you should rule it out. You have plenty of people. I think you just have to make sure they can handle themselves.” Jill was saying as she rose from her chair and went to look closer at the surroundings of the apartment
“I just couldn’t sleep anymore, thought I would get some air and check the place out. I can’t believe how quiet this place is around here. It seems unnatural not seeing a zombie shuffling around.” Jill said with a face of disgust.
“This won’t last, it never does. They will all be back. It’s like they hit us in waves. A couple days on, couple days off. You’ll get used to it.” Casey said with a shrug.
“So that means your inviting me to stay I take it?”
“Every able body helps, you and that kid will make 114 able bodies.” Casey said and offered her a chair. They sat in companionable silence until Jill spoke, having all sorts of questions about the integrity of the place, wanting to know what was reinforced where and giving her own ideas in the mix.
“Do you guys have all these stores connected?” She indicated the long strip mall like buildings.
“Only on the roofs, we built platforms going to each, so you don’t have to run down and back up every time you change a position.”
“What else do you guys do here?”
“Now that the weather is nicer, we go on supply runs, try to stock up on meds, food, water, fuel, pretty much anything. We do some searching in the winter too, it’s actually safer. Zeds tend to freeze when it’s cold enough, we were having a problem of our own. People getting lost in storms and vehicles getting stuck” Casey explained.
“You should invest in snow mobiles. Do you ever find people when you go out?” She asked quietly.
“Snow mobiles are actually on our “to do” list as well. We use to find pockets of people, but not for a long time now. Sometimes we’ll see stores that have picked over when we make a return trip, so we know there are others alive out there, but they never find us.
“Do you search?”
“Use to. A lot. Everyone here has someone they are looking for, and it was very chaotic trying to get organized when all anyone wanted to do was go and look for their family. So we’d send out search parties, every day we did this, started sending out maybe 30 people, everyone wanted to help. But then as the months went by and our numbers dwindled with causalities people stopped wanting to go as much.” Silence descended now.
“I think some people just gave up hope.”
“I haven’t.” Jill stated. “I know my family is still out there, they are strong and smart, we’ve been planning our survival years before this happened.” Jill chuckled to herself thinking back about all the mock scenarios they talked about over and over again. “Unfortunately I happened to be out of town when this all went down.” Jill played with the little gravel pebbles on the roof. Casey made a loud scoffing sound at this statement.
“What?” She looked up incredulously.
“Your so naïve, how did you manage to survive this long? Your family is dead, just like mine, just like everyone else’s here.” He replied with sheer disgust.
“Aren’t you just a happy ray of sunshine? Excuse me for having hope and not wanting to think of something happy once in a while.”
“I just don’t want you diluting yourself and then you end up dead because you were careless.”
“Whatever.” She said turning away from him.
“So have you ever thought of expanding to those apartments back there?” Jill asked quizzically.
“Gee no. Is that what that dwelling is over there?”
“Don’t have to be a dick. A simple no, would do.” Jill said. Both Casey and Jill continued to look everywhere but at each other in the now pregnant silence that has befallen them.
“I’m not sure we have the man power, and not knowing what’s in there seems risky.” Casey said, being the first one to end the long silence.
“Well I don’t think you should rule it out. You have plenty of people. I think you just have to make sure they can handle themselves.” Jill was saying as she rose from her chair and went to look closer at the surroundings of the apartment
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