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Authors: Jeff Olah
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
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crawl, he abandoned the video sharing sites and instead started searching forums. He looked for any threads started within the last few hours, regardless of title. From what he could surmise, this was the only thing being discussed online.
Avoiding any of the conspiracy theory forums and opting only for sites that appeared well informed, he found his way to a website that showed nearly one million active members, of which 86,000 were currently online. The first and most active thread was titled ‘ WTF is happening ’. He didn’t have a clue, and it appeared that no one else did either.
As he opened the thread and his connection slowed once again, David turned back to Ethan. “Just give me a few minutes; I want to see what I can find out before we go. You cool with that?”
Only half paying attention, Ethan nodded. “Sure, but I think I found those crazy chili fanatics.”
Back to his work, David returned the same level of enthusiasm. “Yeah, okay.” He read the first post and had the same exact question. What is happening to people? Is this some sort of sickness or mass terrorism? The first page of more than fifty included little information and was filled mainly with those looking to add to the already out of control hysteria.
One theory told of a super virus that had become airborne and would kill each new host within minutes. Another described a story where the latest round of flu shots had turned its consumers into bloodthirsty vampires. And still another tried to sell the idea of the government infecting its own citizens as a form of population control.
David didn’t buy any of these, and neither did anyone else. Glancing through pages ten through twenty brought stories from those actually living the incidents. They told firsthand accounts of what the video sharing sites had portrayed, as most had gone offline due to the server-strangling amount of traffic each site was attempting to manage.
Page eighteen stopped David’s search, as he found a lengthy post from a woman in Atlanta who was on her way to the gym with her husband when the madness rolled through. She described a group of six crazed individuals so badly disfigured that she had trouble distinguishing the men from the women.
Stopped at an intersection, they ran across the half dozen out of control individuals as they poured out of the local coffee house in pursuit of a lone female. At first the woman assumed that she and her husband had become involved in an elaborate prank, but quickly understood the severity as those wide-eyed men and women began beating her vehicle with their bare hands.
They approached from the driver’s side and tore at her mirrors, pulling free the weather-stripping around the window. As the largest in the group leapt onto the hood, she said her forty-seven-year-old husband stepped out of the passenger side and confronted the six ravenous people.
Before he was able to question those attempting to destroy his vehicle, he was tackled to the ground by the man on the hood. The others moved in quickly as he slid backward and up onto the sidewalk. Giving up on the female who’d sprinted away from the intersection, the riotous animals turned their full attention to her husband.
Continuing the story, the woman told of how she lowered her window and screamed that her husband return to the car. He immediately obliged and narrowly finding his way into the back seat, the woman turned the car around and headed away from the downtown square.
Heading home, the woman said that she noticed an alarming amount of blood running from her husband’s right hand and noticed he’d been bitten by the man that had left the hood and chased him down. She tried three different twenty-four hour clinics, only to return home as not one was open that morning for business.
The woman continued to post every few minutes with updates as her husband’s condition began to deteriorate. First came the
Avoiding any of the conspiracy theory forums and opting only for sites that appeared well informed, he found his way to a website that showed nearly one million active members, of which 86,000 were currently online. The first and most active thread was titled ‘ WTF is happening ’. He didn’t have a clue, and it appeared that no one else did either.
As he opened the thread and his connection slowed once again, David turned back to Ethan. “Just give me a few minutes; I want to see what I can find out before we go. You cool with that?”
Only half paying attention, Ethan nodded. “Sure, but I think I found those crazy chili fanatics.”
Back to his work, David returned the same level of enthusiasm. “Yeah, okay.” He read the first post and had the same exact question. What is happening to people? Is this some sort of sickness or mass terrorism? The first page of more than fifty included little information and was filled mainly with those looking to add to the already out of control hysteria.
One theory told of a super virus that had become airborne and would kill each new host within minutes. Another described a story where the latest round of flu shots had turned its consumers into bloodthirsty vampires. And still another tried to sell the idea of the government infecting its own citizens as a form of population control.
David didn’t buy any of these, and neither did anyone else. Glancing through pages ten through twenty brought stories from those actually living the incidents. They told firsthand accounts of what the video sharing sites had portrayed, as most had gone offline due to the server-strangling amount of traffic each site was attempting to manage.
Page eighteen stopped David’s search, as he found a lengthy post from a woman in Atlanta who was on her way to the gym with her husband when the madness rolled through. She described a group of six crazed individuals so badly disfigured that she had trouble distinguishing the men from the women.
Stopped at an intersection, they ran across the half dozen out of control individuals as they poured out of the local coffee house in pursuit of a lone female. At first the woman assumed that she and her husband had become involved in an elaborate prank, but quickly understood the severity as those wide-eyed men and women began beating her vehicle with their bare hands.
They approached from the driver’s side and tore at her mirrors, pulling free the weather-stripping around the window. As the largest in the group leapt onto the hood, she said her forty-seven-year-old husband stepped out of the passenger side and confronted the six ravenous people.
Before he was able to question those attempting to destroy his vehicle, he was tackled to the ground by the man on the hood. The others moved in quickly as he slid backward and up onto the sidewalk. Giving up on the female who’d sprinted away from the intersection, the riotous animals turned their full attention to her husband.
Continuing the story, the woman told of how she lowered her window and screamed that her husband return to the car. He immediately obliged and narrowly finding his way into the back seat, the woman turned the car around and headed away from the downtown square.
Heading home, the woman said that she noticed an alarming amount of blood running from her husband’s right hand and noticed he’d been bitten by the man that had left the hood and chased him down. She tried three different twenty-four hour clinics, only to return home as not one was open that morning for business.
The woman continued to post every few minutes with updates as her husband’s condition began to deteriorate. First came the
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