Amongst the Dead
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In that second, when the young woman was distracted, Sophie could have run, turned and dashed down the stairs and out of the house. But the moment passed and instead she watched, captivated as the woman retrieved the shard of glass from the floor and held it to the light, making it glint and glisten.
“Now, Sophie, I want you to do something for me.”
“What?” Sophie said.
“Take off your clothes. All of them.”
“Don’t be ridiculous,” Sophie said, but at the same time her fingers were fumbling with the button on her jeans. She popped the button and slid the denims down over her thighs, letting them drop to the floor.
“Good girl.” The young woman smiled encouragingly. “That’s good. And now the rest of them.”
As Sophie pulled her shirt over her head, her mind was crying, I don’t want to do this! But there wasn’t a damned thing she could do to stop herself.
The young woman moved towards her, the glass shard clasped tightly in her hand, so tightly it had sliced through her palm and fingers. She seemed oblivious to the blood that dribbled from her hand and dripped to the floor where the oak floorboards were sucking it in.
Once Sophie was completely naked and standing shivering, cold and vulnerable, the young woman moved closer still.
Sophie cried out at the first cut, but after that she was silent, unable to do anything but accept her fate.
Amongst the Dead
David Bernstein
Young and alone against the living dead.
Riley has lived alone with her dad in an isolated cabin in New York State for as long as she can remember. It’s just safer. Her dad’s told her about the time before the zombies, but she can only imagine it. Instead of playing with friends, Riley became a crack shot with a rifle. And she’ll need that skill now that her dad’s been bitten. She’ll be forced to leave the cabin and fight off zombies all on her own. She’s twelve years old. There’s a lot she’ll have to learn about the world she’s never really been part of. She already knows how to kill zombies. But now she’ll learn just how dangerous the living can be too.
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Amongst the Dead
Copyright © 2012 by David Bernstein
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