No one was really prepared when the dead came. I mean, how could you prepare for something no one knew would happen? It started as a flu, one of those animal ones, like bird flu or Swine flu, only worse. It got the elderly first, but they died from the flu itself and in the early stages, they didn't reanimate. Then it spread to those with low immune systems, who again died. One of the Doctors who treated them caught it and that was the end. The end of the world, as we knew it then. Now? Those of us who're left spend our days trying to survive. Most of us live in the forests and old huts, some of the braver folk have moved into the houses closer to the city, built walls around themselves. A gated little community, if you will. They're mainly the people who can't let go of the world before, still hoping that everything is just a terrible nightmare. I envy those people, those who can still pretend and try and live how we used to. I can't do that, I'm too far gone.
You see, I've been on my own since all this started, I lost everyone the minute townsfolk started to rip each other open with their bare hands. I was in my home when it stared, with my husband and our 1 week old daughter. I watched as my hairdresser burst into my house, watched her snatch my baby from my husband and lower her head. I thought she was kissing her, but when she raised her head it was covered in blood. I stuck my fingers through her eye sockets and forced her away. I'd blinded her, but it wasn't enough, she heard my husband in the kitchen. He'd rattled the cutlery as he'd reached for a knife and she was on him in seconds. As she bit a chunk out of his arm, I heard him scream for me to run. I did as he asked, there was nothing I could do any way, I mean, she'd bit him. Ripped his arm open like it was tender steak. Much of that day was a blur. Most died that day, those that didn't are in the forests or the gated community. Some even took their own lives. This was before the flu went air born and we all began breathing it in, like a pollutant. Now when you die, you turn any way.