JUST BREATHE (Rick Grimes Romance)

Preview Stop Falling

It's hard to pin point when you first realize the world is going to shit. I mean truly realize and without question know this is happening. More to the point when do you give up on hope and begin to rely on survival only.

At first it just seemed like people were getting crazier, more sadistic. Except that was kind of par for the corse and not really all that alarming. I mean if one man could try to eat another's face off because he was high on bath salts how was this any different. If a man could cut off another's head off on a greyhound bus in Canada of all places and start eating him in front of the police. Then this started off no more shocking. Not at first at least......until the cases became more frequent. Before long everyone was glued to the nightly news as there seemed to be a sweep of such events leaving no state, no country, no family untouched. It didn't seem to matter the race, religion or wealth all people were afflicted.

Overnight it went from localized events to an epidemic without explanation or warning. A sickness, a disease that seemed to spread world wide overnight without a cure. There was no action plan as governments all over the world crumbled. The police and army tried to make a stand but even they fell with little resistance. Anarchy rained and the worst of humanity flourished. People began to riot, steel, rape and murder at whim. Even good people began to do things they never imagined they would do just to survive. Some people even had to put down their own loved ones as they had turned into the undead.

In and amongst the confusion the dead grew in numbers. Walking as if it was some bad scene from a horror movie. Coming back to life with a mindless carnal need to eat flesh. All people knew was that you didn't want to bit or scratch because you became infected. As people left the cities in droves the hi ways became impassable and eventually a stand still graveyards. In a matter of months nearly all of humanity around the world had become extinct. All our technology couldn't save us and had become useless. I had once heard someone call this our extinction event.

The few remaining survivor had broke off into struggling groups. We no longer lived in cities but in camps. People had long ago stopped believing in a rescue or a cure. Now a days you no longer planned for a future but rather how you were going to survive tomorrow. How you were going to find the bare essentials of life such as food or weapons for protection. Even gas now a days had become a commodity people would kill over. Unfortunately you not only had to fear the living but the dead as well. Like I said the underbelly of society had flourished.