WorldLost- Week 1: An Infected Novel Read Online Free PDF

without changing.”
    I stepped to the door, unlocked the deadbolt and opened the
door so I could peek out. With no one in the alley, I closed the door and
looked at Frank.
    “Frank, I’m going to find my friends. I think it would be
best if you come with me. As a group, we could be more efficient, increase our
chances of making it.”
    “I’m not leaving this place. It’s all I know, this alley, the
bakery, the liquor store and my dumpsters. This is home for me. I’m staying,
Henry will be back and he’ll be happy that I took care of his place.”
    “Ok. I tried. You stay here; I’ll go and find Amy and Butch.
With luck, we will meet again.”
    I opened the door, looked outside again and I stepped out,
closing the door. I heard Frank lock the deadbolt and say through the door,
“Good luck and Godspeed.”
    I moved with caution north through the alley. I didn’t run
into any problems as I made my way to the end of the alley, but I still took my
time and watched very carefully to see if there was a problem. Once I finally
made it to the alleyway opening, I was able to hide behind the alley wall. I peeked
around the corner to the west and then to the east. I didn’t see any movement
on the street, no people, no cars, nothing. There weren’t any sirens or sounds
of people, so I moved out of the alley and headed east towards Amy’s.
    I used the storefront doorway entrances and the parked cars
that lined the street as cover as I moved cautiously through the street. I
moved from doorway opening to doorway opening all the while stopping at each
and looking around for anything that might cause me trouble. I looked around,
smelled the air and listened for anything that would cause an alarm, just like
the infected did.
    Interesting I thought.
    I slowly made my way east on Ford Street till I got to the intersection
where it met 10th Ave.
    I crouched behind an SUV and peeked around it to look in each
direction.
    There was a group of infected standing around on the north
end of the street just turning in slow circles searching for their next meal. I
decided the best thing to do was to make a run for it, quietly and with
caution. If they saw me then I’d turn on the speed to out run them, finding the
first place I could hide and lose them, waiting for them to pass by.
    Running was something I truly enjoyed. My dad introduced me
to running at a young age and we enjoyed many cross country runs together. It
was our way to exercise and spend time together. It was too bad that I had
stopped a year ago after meeting Amy and Butch. The three of us just had other
things to do and it generally involved late nights and drinking, which didn’t
make running an appealing hobby.
    Running for your life was a different situation, but I knew I
could outrun the infected, even the fast ones. Although fast, they didn’t
actually run like a normal living person, they galloped, like a horse, the type
of run movement that allowed a hunter to stay with their prey, just enough to
wear their prey down. I was pretty sure that a short burst, a sprint, would get
me away, out of their view and allow me to find a hiding spot.
    I looked up from my thoughts and noticed the infected
standing on the other side of the car I was hiding behind. I needed to make
sure to keep my mind on the task, at hand and not let it wander. What was I
going to do now, run or…..?

Chapter 5
    I really didn’t have a choice at this point;I couldn’t sit
there and wait it out. I was crouching behind an SUV, with no real cover. At
any moment another infected could appear from another direction and I’d be boxed
in with no exit. As it was, I was already in a pickle since the group of infected
I had been watching was now directly across the street from where I was crouched
behind the SUV.
    I took a deep breath, making the decision to move, stood up
and took off like a bat out of hell. A moan came from the infected closest to
the SUV I had been hiding behind which made all the