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behind him. That thumping , its rap music, that’s
all.
    Charles let his head sag
back on the headrest again. So hungry, so tired, he just needed to
close his eyes for a minute. He listened to the thumping some more.
    “Hey, Mister, here’s your order,” the
black kid said reaching out the window with a white and red paper
bag.
    Charles opened his dead eyes, grabbed
the kid’s arm, and took a big bite of his wrist.
    So
hungry .

What follows is an excerpt
from the novel this short story is based on…
     

    DON
    OF THE
    LIVING DEAD
     
     
    By
    Robert DeCoteau
     
     
    A
    ZOMBIE TALES
PRESS
    Publication

CHAPTER ONE

     
     
    I can’t claim to have seen
every zombie movie known to man, but I have seen most of the good
ones, from the old black and white George A. Romero flicks to the
modern day, Resident Evil flicks. Many of them begin with the damage
already done. We meet the characters sometime after their survival
skills have kicked in. On occasion, we see how those characters
encountered their first zombie; sometimes it's in a graveyard,
sometimes in their home, or, more recently, in a secret underground
laboratory.
    My first encounter was nothing like in
the movies. I was sitting on the toilet.
    Don't laugh.
    I am one of those rare few that are so
regular you could set your watch by my bowel movements, no fiber
added.
    It all started on a Wednesday afternoon
in May. My allotted half hour lunch break was over and I was taking
my mid afternoon constitutional.
    After nine years crunching numbers for
the same company, I had conditioned my body. I drank my morning
coffee at my desk in my little cubical, ran numbers and cost
analysis until twelve-thirty, took my lunch until one o’clock, and
then spent fifteen relaxing minutes on the pot.
    Who can blame me for taking my fifteen
minutes on the clock? I'm sure everyone has the same mentality
about their employers; everyone has been force to suffer with fewer
benefits, less pay, and less time off. The recession has put most
companies, from the giants like Wal-Mart to the lowly mom and pop
stores in the same predicament. But even with all its drawbacks
there are benefits to businesses during a recession. One of the
benefits is that for every employee on staff there are two or three
equally qualified individuals out there just waiting for the
opportunity to take the job, often for less money.
    My job was definitely not secure. Even
with all my time working for Comdex Pharmaceuticals, I was just as
expendable as the next guy; maybe more so, I was one of the highest
paid accountants in the company. They could hire one of the young
fresh graduates off the street for nearly half of what they paid
me.
    I work hard, but I see no reason to
waste any part of my lunch break in the john. Other than a pen or
two and maybe a few sheets of copy paper, those fifteen minutes are
my only extra compensation for the wonderful job I did at Comdex.
But I suppose I should quit rambling and just start at the
beginning.
    Lunch had been a frantic race to find
Rebecca, the sandwich girl. She made her rounds in our building
every day, but ultimately she seemed to forget me three times a
week. It wasn’t by accident of course. I don't know what her
problem was. I mean, sure I asked her out once, but when she said
no I didn't push. I don't know why everything got awkward after
that. I'm an adult and she's an adult, just because she didn't want
to be an adult with me doesn't mean I don't still like
sandwiches.
    That day, by the time I caught up to
her on the third floor, all she had left was turkey on rye. I can't
stand rye bread, why would anyone fuck up a perfectly good loaf of
bread like that? I bought it anyway, because I hate spending the
afternoon with an empty stomach more than I hate rye.
    She sold the sandwich to me, but was
very flippant about it, like just because I chased her down to
purchase something for lunch, she had grounds for a sexual
harassment suit.
    As if, I thought. Plenty of other