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them.
    Scott kicked the cart into her.  She stumbled and fell backward into the worm covered shit.
    Scott let go of Kim and quickly shoved the cart out of the way.  He jumped onto the fallen woman’s stomach.  A glob of puke erupted out of her mouth.  Scott avoided it.  He hopped off the woman’s stomach and over onto another clean section of carpet.
    “Come on, do it!” he yelled at Kim.
    Shaking her head, not believing what she was about to do, she hopped onto the woman’s chest as she was working to stand back up.  The woman was forced onto her back. Kim jumped onto the carpet next to Scott.
    “Not so bad,” he said.
    “Come on!”
    The woman behind them slowly started getting up again.
    The remainder of the hall was clean all the way to the open elevator.  Together they ran to it.  Once inside, Scott pressed the eighth floor.  Slowly the elevator doors closed.
    They caught their breath.
    When the doors opened on the eighth floor they were met with a hallway full of more dead people.  All at once they turned toward the elevator.
    Kim yelled, “Shut the door!”
    Scott hammered the elevator buttons with his fist.
    The doors didn’t close right away.
    “Shut it!” Kim screamed.  “They’re coming!”
    “I’m trying!”
    Finally, the doors closed.
    Out of breath, Kim asked, “Was that the eighth floor?”
    “Yea! Now we gotta get back down to it.”
    Kim said shakily, “I wish I knew where my husband was.  The bastard dropped me off and went looking for a parking place.”
    “It’s alright,” Scott said.  “We’ll get to my car.  We’ll find him.”
    The ninth floor was unpassable as the elevator doors opened.  There were no dead people, only a carpet full of billions of tiny squirming worms.  When the doors opened, all of the worms leaned toward Scott and Kim like a wind had shifted them toward it.
    “I wonder if we could run across it,” Kim asked.  “We have shoes on…it’s not like we’re barefoot.”
    “I wouldn’t want to take the chance,” Scott said.
    Kim nodded, “Ok, what do we do then?”
    “Keep going up.”
    He pressed the elevator button again.
    The tenth floor was clean. Running out of the elevator, they took a quick left around a corner and ran along a hallway with large picture windows overlooking the city.  “Ok, the parking garage is two floors below us…right there!” Scott said pointing down to an open parking lot.  “If we can get to it, we should be able to get out of here.”
    “And go where?” Kim asked.
    Questioning, Scott asked, “I thought you were worried about your husband? I thought you wanted to find him.  Don’t you know where he parked?”
    “No, I don’t want to find him,” Kim said quietly.  “I really hope he’s dead.”
    “Ok, let’s go to the airport.  I’m supposed to go meet my family.  It’s something we planned.”
    She asked, “But where would you fly to? I mean, what if this is worldwide?”
    Scott looked at her, put his hands on his hips and said with a nervous shaky laugh, “Well then I’d say we’re pretty well fucked.”
     
    Janet Williams sat in the passenger seat holding onto the dashboard, tears rolling down her cheeks.  She felt in her heart that she was going to die very soon.
    Hundreds of the dead had their hands on the top of Nick’s car.  They weren’t trying to break the windows to get in, they simply stood there, not moving.  Their yellow hollowed eyes stared through the windshield at them.
    “Just stay calm,” Nick said as he shifted in his seat.  “They see us, but I don’t think they know how to get in here.  If they did, I think we’d be dead already.”
    “Why do they just stand there?” she asked in a shaky voice.  “Why don’t they try to get in here?”
    “I don’t know, but it’s freaking me the hell out.”
    “Try and drive through them!” she yelled, stomping her feet.  “ Try and drive through them! I can’t take this anymore!”
    Nick pushed on the