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mind would
bring a child anywhere that you had to take a gun to visit?
                “No,
I was just telling you who the man was.”
                “Oh.
And they were alive?”
                “Yes.”
                “I’m
opening the door a crack. Just to see what’s going on.” Edward grabbed the
doorknob and Moira’s hand followed to stop him.
                “Be
quiet and don’t let them know we are here.”
                “I
know! Now, let go.”
                Moira
moved her hand from his to her side, where she started to nervously twist the
pale lavender fabric of her cardigan. Edward opened the door and peered down
the hall just long enough to see two men near the front door and the girl and
the father that Moira had seen. He closed the door.
    “They are going into that Asian boy’s place.”
     

Gate to Hell
    The
sliding glass door was halfway open but the glass was still intact. Why
would anyone open that door? Rob was hoping they‘d find Ryan so he could
ask him that very question.The apartment was torn apart and two bodies
lay on the living room floor. They were unmoving and both had the handles of
kitchen knives protruding from their heads, one from the chin, and the other from
an eye socket, both blades completely sunken in.     
    “Oh my god. Who are these people?” Isobel gasped.  The wounds were more
disgusting than bullets and bite marks. “Neither one of them is Ryan.”
                “Look
at the bite wounds. These people were infected.” Rob had knelt down and was
wiggling the handle of one of the knives.
                Isobel
hit him on the shoulder. “Stop that! It’s gross! Get up and help me.”
                He
hopped over the bodies to close and lock the sliding glass door. His shoes
pushed up blood from the carpet. The hanging blinds had been torn off their
track in the chaos of the event so the dead outside could see Isobel and Rob.
                They
checked the remaining rooms and didn’t find anything or anyone else until they
reached the bedroom. Ryan stumbled out from behind the door, grabbed Isobel and
went directly for her shoulder. A corpse is touching me! Her mind was
screaming. And then she was screaming like the SUV driver days ago, shrill and
without end. She couldn’t believe that it was happening. Ryan’s hands were ice
cold, his teeth were biting air and he smelled of urine and feces. Isobel was
so close to him that she could see the flecks of dried blood surrounding
several wounds on his arms and face. Before he had knifed the strangers in the
living room and stopped them for good, they had succeeded in passing the
infection to him.
                “Don’t
let him bite you!” Rob yelled as he pushed Ryan off of Isobel and raised the
machete high in the air. He swung down and the machete hit Ryan’s arm with a thwack .
Rob pulled up again and this time managed to lodge the blade in Ryan’s shoulder
which enabled him to hold Ryan at a distance.
                “Finish
him, Isobel! Shoot him!” Rob ducked his head and she barely regained composure
to put a bullet just below Ryan’s left eye.
                Ryan
had been a decent guy. He’d helped Isobel move in to Willow Brook three years
ago. Now, thanks to her, his body lay on the floor in a dirty heap of ruined
life. She burst into tears and Rob embraced her tightly.
                “It’s
ok, it’s alright. You had to do it.”
                “I
know. I just wish I didn’t have to.”
     

Snack Time
    “Did you
hear that?” Gabe yelled, looking at the floor. He and Molly had built a castle
and were about to attack it with an army when a scream erupted and a gunshot
popped somewhere below them.
                “It’ll
be fine. Don’t worry, ok?” Molly smiled at him. “Hey, maybe we should take a
break and eat