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face of the attacker until it released the grip on Devin’s leg. Devin stood up and kicked the hatch closed. “Fuck! Erica, where is your car?” Devin expelled full of adrenaline. Erica pointed to her Bug’s tail sticking out from the front of the office parking lot. “Too far! We’ll take Frank’s truck. It isn’t too far. We can jump!” From the pounding coming from the roof hatch to the explosions, Devin and Erica heard a scream for help. Somewhere close. Gary was being chased through the junkyard by a bloody creature. Devin shouted at Gary, trying to get his attention, but Gary was too concerned with the blood-soaked creature, which was naked and covered in mud, chasing after him with great force and speed. Erica watched in dismay as the naked man was gaining on Gary. With a great leap, the naked man tackled Gary and began to feast on his chest. Erica and Devin watched in horror as this man, this thing was eating the flesh off old Gary’s chest.
    Devin grabbed Erica and put her face into his chest. Devin watched as the naked man and other creatures found the meal, and they too began to consume pieces of flesh from the motionless body in the junkyard. Suddenly, the creatures stopped feeding and began to walk away. After a few paces, they twitched, and red oozed around the backside of their bodies. Then, Gary stood back up. His eyes met Devin’s with a glanced stare. Gary was awake, and he was hungry. Gary began to stumble toward the building. “Um. Shit! OK, we’ve got to get out of here. Erica, do you trust me?” She nodded in compliance.
    “I’ve got Frank’s keys. He had the shotgun. We need more ammo. There is bound to be some in the truck. OK. Are you with me? I don’t know what these things are. All I know is that they are going to come through that hatch, and we don’t need to be here when that happens.” She nodded in agreement. “I need you to get their attention. I’m gonna go get Frank’s truck; then I want you to jump in the back when I back up to the roof. OK?” They shared eye contact. They were both scared, but they knew they needed to do something and do it fast.
    Devin grabbed the shotgun. Even though it didn’t have any ammo, he could still use it as a blunt object. He held the keys in his mouth and the shotgun in both hands. When Devin began to get to the edge of the roof, Erica began to scream. She screamed all of her frustration and rage out. She was almost raped, her dad was one of the creatures, and she just demolished the head of her attacker with the butt of a shotgun stolen from a dead man.
    All the while Erica was screaming, Devin jumped down with a crash. He didn’t even flinch when he hit the trash dumpster; he just started off running toward the white dual-wheeled pickup truck. Devin saw the naked man covered in mud staring at him. As the naked man began to run toward Devin, Devin turned the shotgun into a lance and knocked the naked man aside. With a swiping motion, Devin hit the keyless entry for Frank’s pickup with his teeth.
    The blinkers flashed. And a ray of hope filled Devin, and he jumped into the cab of the pickup and fired up the diesel engine. Devin turned the key. Nothing happened. The dashboard came to life. A bloody face and a hand came alongside the driver side of the truck, leaving a streak of blood down the window. Devin tried the key again. The engine wouldn’t turn over. “Goddamn diesel piece of shit!” he shouted as he had to wait for the hemi engine to prime itself. After an icon had disappeared from the dashboard, the engine roared to life. Devin flipped the gear into reverse, running over the first naked man with a crunching sound. As Devin revved the engine in reverse, he backed the bed of the truck up to the building with a crash.
    Erica, scared out of her mind, took a leap of faith into the back of the truck, and Devin reached the back to open the back-window slit to allow Erica into the cab. As she started to crawl into the cab, Devin