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    “We could start checking houses around here, ones that ain’t occupied.  If no one home, then let’s clean them fuckers out.” Bobo shrugged.  “But only if it just sitting empty.  Ain’t no cause to go busting in doors if someone home.”
    Darryl nodded , agreeing on both counts.  “Sure.  Won’t take too many to do that, and we got trucks.”
    “We running out of places to put stuff.” Jody remarked as she finished writing.  “Basement don’t have too much more room.  And the barn pretty packed up too.”
    “I with you.  We get our hands on some tarps and we can rig up some storage in the yard out back, especially for cans and anything else that be okay not under a solid roof.”
    “We get ourselves some more wood and stuff, we can put up some roofs for that.” Tank pointed out.
    “How much more we talking?” Shooter asked.  “We done made a big assed dent in that Home Depot already.”
    “We gotta see what else we can lay hands on.” Bobo said.  “Then we can take a look at what might can be done.”
    “When?”
    “Tomorrow, next day.” Bobo shrugged.  “I don’t want to get too deep into any of the towns until we got a chance to see if this zombie thing can’t settle out some.”
    “How it gonna settle?” Vivian asked.
    “From what I’m seeing on the news,” Mr. Soul answered, “them zombies are starting to spread out of the bad spots.”
    “They following people.” Big Chief shook his head.  “Following the food.”  Everyone knew he meant people when he said food.  Zombies didn’t eat anything that hadn’t been breathing at some point.  And if it was still breathing, they still liked it.
    Heads nodded all around as expressions soured, but Bobo’s voice was still calm.  “Ain’t nothing we can do about that, but if they spread out some it’ll help us when we go after a good supply grab.  Let’s give it a day or two, maybe things will thin out some.  But we had ourselves a little break this morning, and there some good daylight left until dark, so let’s get a couple teams out scouting a little, and hitting houses while they at it.”
    “How far out?” Darryl asked.
    “ Not too far.  Five miles max.” Bobo replied.
    Darryl nodded and stubbed out his cigarette.  “Alright.  I’ll get it set up.”  He rose and headed for the room’s doorway.  Most of the Dogz were still lounging around in the patio area in the back yard.  He knew it would take a little doing to get some of them rousted into motion after starting the day taking it easy.
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Chapter Two – Should we stay or should we go
Jessica
    Jessica squinted through the windshield.  It was tinted, but not enough to completely cut out the glare from sunlight reflecting off the SUV’s vast expanse of waxed hood.  “Um . . .” she began.
    “Yeah.  I see it.”  Austin said, taking his foot off the accelerator and reaching for his radio.  “I think we’ve got a problem up ahead.”
    Since they’d emerged from the southeastern Atlanta suburbs onto I-75, they’d made much better time.  Austin was generally more willing to let the convoy’s speed creep up to as high as fifty miles per hour as long as he kept to the left lane and the road was clear of anything that might hide a lurking zombie.  They’d slowed several times to weave around wrecks, and been forced to detour around one impressive blockage about half an hour ago, but using the surface streets hadn’t cost them too much time.  It was only early afternoon; plenty of daylight still left for them to reach Knoxville before dark.
    “Another blockage?” Tyler asked over the radio.
    “Those are people.” Jessica said as she shaded her eyes and was able to get a good look as the SUV’s speed fell.
    “And a whole shi—uh lot of zombies.” Austin added before keying the radio.  “Yes, but it looks like we’ve got some stranded survivors too.”
    The road ahead had another mangled