Dead Man's Hand

Dead Man’s Hand

Chapter 1

                After America got hit by a bioweapon, the people behind it didn’t know that it could be spread by survivors or “carriers”. On of which, was Alex Humble. He did not go to a different state because he thought they were already in ruins. He was a survivalist with his very own web show, but that’s over now. No more internet, no more cameras, just silence and scavenging. (The rest of this story is from Alex’s point of view.)

                I noticed that I didn’t get sick. People around me did and changed into someone else! Something else! Their very body structure changes into a ‘monster’. It sounds like some horror movie but it’s not as much as I wish it was, and I was a paid actor.

                The first day I just stayed in my old house, hearing the panic outside, and sharpening kitchen knives , and packing my supplies. I waited a day before breaking for it into the woods by my town, sleeping in trees with my hammock. I made sure to bring axe, but it doesn’t fit in my backpack, and might weigh me down.

                It’s now my fourth day, and I’m out of my rations. I made it to a town there was a woman walking down the street that I hid from , after she went by I went to a gas station and got a can of pop, and chocolate….s**t!

                Next, I went to Dick’s Sporting Goods, haha! I say “goods”, but anyway, I found a bow and arrows int eh back of the store in a crate. After that I went to find hunting food and found beef stew, and Italian Pepper Steak. As I walked out, I saw the woman in front of me on all fours with her mouth stretched open! Her tongue shot out and tangled around my foot.

Chapter 2

                I grabbed my sharpened kitchen knife and cut off the creature’s tongue, it then pounced on me and I stabbed it in the throat. Ever have I felt more grossed out.

I decided to move to the next town, once again I had to go through the woods. I saw a deer, I reached for my bow, and shot it in the neck. As I walked up to the fallen animal, but another one off the morphed creatures ran up and started eating. I shot him down, too. He must have just got infected yesterday. I harvested what I could and moved on. A few hours of walking later, I set up camp.

I cut down a small tree and began cutting up logs for a campfire. Exhausted, I started a fire using the bow string fire method. Once I started the fire, I cooked the meat. I ate it, and set up my hammock away from the ground and on a suitable tree.

Fifth day in I noticed a rash around my ankle. Terrified, I tried to find a hospital. I was lucky to find a dead survivor that had a map. I saw a hospital and shook the dead man’s hand.

As I made my way to the hospital, I thought of the people who must have gone there already. I checked the map again and saw a gun store. I checked the place out and only found a small revolver, and two cylinders worth of bullets.

Next thing I did was enter through the back of the hospital and try to find something to treat my festering ankle. I was met with a man blocking a door holding an empty shotgun ready to use it like a club! I told the distressed man: “please step aside or I will have to shoot you. I don’t want to waste a bullet!”

 He said in a calm voice “‘I’m sorry Dave I can’t do that.”

 I said, “I’m not even called Dave!” and shot him in the leg. As he was on the ground I pushed him aside with my foot, and got painkillers, and antibiotics, along with many other medications and ran out, and into a house nearby.

Chapter 3

As I made it into the house I couldn’t help but feel bad for the man I shot, even though he seemed to have a screw loose. The main things I should do is reinforce the doors and windows AFTER checking the house for a threat. I did a full sweep of the house and there were no signs of danger but I did find a girls body. I buried the body outside after setting up defenses. The body was placed in the back yard.

                The living room had a fireplace, so I can cook and possibly bake food. My bed will be by the fire place for warmth and light. I could only get a few hours of sleep, so I decided to get a coffee pot, and the needed ingredients for a small cup of joe. I had a cup of coffee, and thought of how expensive it would be if things were normal, I giggled a little bit, but something giggled back……

                I looked outside to see a hole in the dirt beneath the wooden cross where she was buried. I grabbed for my axe but I looked to my left to see her holding my revolver!

I nervously said: “W…w…would you like some coffee?”

(End of Chapter 3)