A normal world seemed so long a past; a
quiet suburban home with a lovely wife and two beautiful children. A
job as an IT professional at one of the largest computer companies in
the country. Louis K. Grow would trade anything to get his life back.
Now, it was all about the constant fear of being utterly destroyed;
the mad dash toward salvation from this hell. His life destroyed,
with nothing left but his son's metal baseball bat and a backpack
hastily stuffed with various foodstuffs, Louis ran. Murderous zombies
chased him everywhere, and as Louis decapitated and beat down the
horrifying beasts, he couldn't help but worry about his family.
"Could any of the zombies I killed been my own wife? Or my
children?" Louis constantly thought. Tears streamed down his eyes
as he heard a sickening crunch of his bat connecting with a rather
young-looking zombie. The zombie fell as blood leaked out a hole
Louis cleaved out.
With a huge sigh of relief, he saw up ahead, a
heavily reinforced steel plate door, which was painted red. Louis
rushed towards the beckoning doorway as he pushed a couple of zombies
out of the way. The zombies chased after him, but Louis ran into the
room and slammed the door into their disfigured faces. Panting, Louis
slid a large rusted steel rebar into its slot, and began to pile
furniture against the doorway. Taking off his backpack, Louis turned
on the light and slid to the floor in exhaustion. After he wiped his
brow of sweat, he took a look around the safe room. Shelves of
supplies lay there untouched, and Louis's jaw dropped. Nobody else
made it. But how is that possible? This safe room was only one of the
many stops along the road to evacuation. Surely more people could
have come by? But the undisturbed boxes of non-perishable food,
medical kits, and ammunition spoke the truth. Louis was tortured by
the fact that none of his friends, his family, have made it. They
were gone. All gone. He is the only one left, and yet he still had a
long and torturous route ahead of him. What was pasted on the walls
made his feelings even worse. Unhelpful governmental warning signs
have been plastered all over the wall. However, there is a sign of
hope. The walls were also covered with blatantly (2) rude graffiti
expressing the cynical (3) views of other survivors. In the corner of
the room, he saw a dusty stack of old weapons. He looked at his son's
bloodstained baseball bat, and sobbing, lied it on the floor, and
scribbled an RIP note with a pencil nearby. He took an old 9mm pistol
and a rusty military-issue assault rifle. He dug into a pile of
ammunition and stuffed them into his backpack. He also took a first
aid kit and a bottle of instant pain relief medicine. Scattered
around was empty food packaging and a greasy tub of KFC. Louis was
mollified (4) by the fact that at least some people made it as far as
he did. Finally, he turned around to look at a similar steel-plated
door, out into the open, where the rest of his route continued. Louis
sighed once more, and laid down on the cold, dirty floor to rest.
