Exert from my Zombie Story (more to come)

So you want to know how it all started, huh?  Truth be told…so would I.  There are rumors everywhere of how it all began.  Most say it was a virus.  Some say it was poisoning and others say it was extra terrestrial, radiation and even plain ole mutation.  What do I believe?  I don’t care how it started.  I only care how it ends.  I know of only one way for it to end…and that’s probably impossible to do.  They all have to die.  I am not sure if it’s just here in this continent or all over the world.  If it is, God help us. If it’s just here in the good ole U.S. Of A., God help us.

   When it all began, there were seven of us and we knew we needed to stick together to survive.  We decided we needed to build an army of normal humans or what we now call normans.  At the time it was myself, Krogar Daniels or Kro for short, my wife Megan, daughter Lana, her fiance David, his little brother Ben and their parents, our future in-laws, Jack and Marie.  David and Ben were killed in the first few weeks after we were first attacked around here.  David went out to get his gun from his car.  He was a security expert.  Owned his own business and kept most of his equipment and weapons in the trunk of his car.  He took out three of them right away.  Ben bolted out the front door to help his brother, but didn’t see the one that was behind the car and it grabbed him and bit him before any of us could even move.  He screamed for David.  David ran to him and tried to help, but they outnumbered him in a matter of seconds and took him too.  They were usually less threatening during the daytime, but they smelled blood and they were hungry.  It took everything I had in me to keep everyone else in the house, especially their parents.  I ran outside with gun blasting and shut the door.  I nervously walked up to where David was and shot the three feeders off of him and Ben.  The others were already gone looking for fresh meat.  Ben was gone. David was still alive…barely.  His intestines were ripped out and chewed up.  They were laying all over the place.  It was a sad, disgusting mess.  He looked at me and said to tell Lana that he loved her.  I nodded with tears in my eyes.  He made me promise to protect her….and then he asked me to kill him.  We had heard the reports and seen the proof from our neighbors that people turn into these things after they were bitten.  Usually after a few hours, but we weren't sure how long it really took.  So I had no other choice.  I told him I loved him like a son and promised to keep Lana safe.  Then I shot him in the head…twice.  I don’t think his parents ever understood, but I did what I had too.  After that, David’s parents wanted nothing to do with us.  They left and went their own way.  We haven’t heard from them since, not that they could find us, but I hope and pray that Jack and Marie are safe and that somehow, someway they now understand why I did what I did.  Our army was now down to three and it was time for us to get mobile.

Invisible Scars

Where your scars as a badge

They tell the story of the life you've had

Many of those scars you can see,

But those aren't the scars that make me.

Some will hurt for as long as I live,

others lie dormant with the more I give.

Invisible scars cut deep to the heart,

from the very moment that they start.