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corpses in med school. His arm has a gaping wound as if someone just reached over and chewed into the meat of his forearm. He is only 30 years old but his ashen skin made him look like he had come out of the wrong side of a grave.
    Ashley bends down to try to check Jason’s pulse. As she leaned in he grabs her arm in a lunge that is too fast for her to escape. His moaning grows louder and he takes a deep bite into her shoulder. Ashley screams and pushes herself off of Jason. All concern for injuring him gone.
    He is easily 50 pounds heavier than her but his grip was clumsy. The move causes the bite to take a chunk from her should. Ashley looks down to see the damage on her shoulder, she is stunned. The pain feels distant, like it is happening to someone else. There is no fucking way.
    She has had a lot of patients do really stupid things but this has to be crazier than all of them. 
    Jason begins moaning again and tries to move towards the door but Ashley back pedals and slammed it in his face, whoever this freak is he is going to pay.
    Rage and bright pain fill Ashley as she tears down the hallway trying to alert security. When she finally rounds the corner to the elevator she sees that it is several floors up and doesn’t look to be moving in her direction. Ashley winces as the pain in her shoulder causes her to stumble and catch herself against the wall. She decides that it would be better to just take the stairs and takes off towards reception. 
    When she finally makes it back a whole new type of chaos had erupted. Patients with the same dead look as Jason are attacking everyone in the room. Several cops have their guns drawing and are screaming for everyone to stop but the crazies don’t seem fazed. They just keep on their rampage of violence.
    Ashley screams again when she sees that even the cop who was bitten earlier is attacking his fellow police. She spins around on her heels and runs from the room trying to get as far away from this hell as she can manage.
    Panting she runs down the hall past several other nurses who are also running. It’s like the world has gone crazy in only minutes. She explodes out the east door she hears gunshots echoing down the halls from where the police must be in the waiting room.
    The pain in her shoulder flares again and Ashley stumbles into the street just trying to escape. The glare of headlights stuns her, and it is just long enough for the massive truck to clip her as it flies past.
    Her body is thrown to the ground like nothing more than a stuffed doll. Another flash of searing pain as her side is dragged along the pavement overwhelms her senses. Ashley’s eyes slowly fade shut as her shallow breathing fails to provide her brain with enough oxygen. Blackness claims her finally and she feels herself fade away.

7
     
    David stares at his homework. He has been working on this problem for an hour now but the complexities of algebra continue to evade him. The TV in the background drones on, a rerun of some trashy housewives DVD his mom loves. Rain is pouring down outside.
    The flower print of the kitchen table is torn. The wall paper is peeling and stained yellow from smoke.
    He chews the end of his pencil and looks up. His mom is passed out on the couch. Her boyfriend left a few hours ago but the unfinished remains of their meal is still mixed with empty bottles of beer strewn around the living room. Frustrated David drops his pencil and pushes back from the table muttering to himself.
    “Why the fuck should I even do this?” Especially given that he got sent home from school because some of the students supposedly went crazy and attacked each other. He heard it was happening worse in other places.
    Maybe they would just cancel school tomorrow too, he hopes.
    He always wanted to do something more with his life than anyone else in his family, but right now it would be so much easier to just run from it all.
    He walks out into the hall quietly. Not that it would matter, his mom