Thanks Jennifer for
asking me to popping in today. Happy October everyone. I am a fall
baby, born in November but it is October I love. When the changes of
fall are all around. The temperature is falling; you can wear thin
long sleeves, well here in California anyways. Of course October
brings thoughts of pumpkins, candy, baking, and of course Halloween.
But to me October brings my favorite movie time to TV! 31 days of
Horror movies.
I have always been a
horror nut. I love the scary. I love a good scary movie that will
make me want to cover my eyes, or that gets me to jump. I would have
to say that it all started with my dad showing me Night of the Living
Dead when I was around four. Zombies terrify me to this day, but I
cannot look away! I need more. MORE. But as the zombie craze comes
and goes, so does the good and the bad. It is okay though, sometimes
even bad movies are fun to watch to make fun of.
For your enjoyment I
wanted to share the first chapter of Island of the Zombie King which
will be released in 2014:
The World of Decay. .
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Hungry and in need for
fresh water a young man is driven from the safety of his apartment.
He sneaks out, the sun making him shade his eyes briefly. He hadn’t
been outside in over three weeks. The sun felt nice on his skin. He
hadn’t seen one of the undead for over four days. He thought they
were all dead as he walked. Today he was finally going to get out of
this virus infested city. He had walked all day in thought. He saw
the bridge. And then behind him came the moans. Had he heard them
earlier?
He turned. His cotton
candy pink hair flapped in the coastal air filling his nose with the
stench. There they were. All his optimism bottomed out. A huge group
of men, women and children slunked after him. Their skin no longer
living, torn, ripped in colors of off-blue and greens. The bites or
wounds that had caused them to be one of the undead clearly showed
under the clear sky. He did all he could think of and started to run.
He had made it to the middle of the Golden Gate bridge, stopping
suddenly.
In front of him came
another horde of the undead. He was trapped. There would be no way to
fight his way out of it. Dead no matter what. He went to the edge of
the bridge, and looked over at the rough waves below him. He would
have one last choice on how he died, and climbed over the edge. The
moans of the dead got louder as they got closer. He closed his eyes
and said a small prayer of forgiveness. His hands let go of the
railing, and he fell, eyes still closed.
There was no life
before his eyes, or bright light at the end of the tunnel. Blackness.
The rough saltwater waves ate him. Tossed and turned his dead body.
When the body was faced up, the dead eyes stared up at the sky now
clouding over. And something darkened in them, not much, but a small
spark. And his mouth opened filling with saltwater. All memories of
who he was gone, and now he was just there. It craved flesh, but the
water sucked him under. It could not swim, and as the body moved
slowly the ocean current pulled it out.
A woman screamed. The
high pitch shriek filled the empty city, echoing off the empty
buildings. New York, once loud and filled with people, lay in ruin
and death. The undead walked the streets, moving to the scream. She
thought her plan would have worked, but it hadn’t. There was just
too many of them. Her screams died off as the zombies pulled their
own piece of her away to eat. Blood covered the streets and windows
of the empty store fronts, and moans filled the air as the sun
started to fall.
The world now lay in
ruin, the dead bodies of millions waited around for movement. Waited
to feed. They walked around the north, as the winter clouds
threatened snow and rain. They walk around the south where the
government had dropped a bomb hopping to stop them. But it didn’t,
they walk around the desolated area. The dead owned the world. No
more fighting based on religion or race. Beautiful wonders left to
ruin. A race left to extinction. A world left to the dead to crumble
away just like them.
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Thanks Jen!
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