Just In Case

City Gone Bad

All the images used in this story are not mine. Only the writing of the story is. Enjoy.
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{16:23 Buffalo, NY, USA}

A young, blonde haired, teenage boy sits in his computer chair, spinning a wooden screwdriver around in his fingers, alone. His phone is silent. His computer is loud. His friends are busy.

He rolls across his wooden floor to his tall window, covered by a thick, black curtain. He opens it and looks out. The world, silent. No moving cars in sight. No children playing about. Just, silence. He sighed and went back to his desk, continuing what he was doing at his computer and checking the local news. Feeling like his father, he sighed as he scrolled through, finding nothing interesting. He turned off his computer and got up, stumbling over his own feet as he exited his bedroom...
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{17:45}
A police car sped down the street, three more following. There had been a death at a local business, which was followed by a violent outbreak. A man in his late 40's had been eating his lunch alone in the lounge when he suffered a heart attack, and with no one around to witness or call for help; the man perished. The man's body then proceeded to shutdown, his organs ceasing to work, followed by his brain. His corpse laid on the carpet of the meeting room for many hours before a former coworker found him, cold and lifeless as he lie there. Little did she know that something was happening, something larger than anything she had ever experienced and severely life-changing...
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{18:05}
The police arrived, opening the door and seeing a woman get her neck ripped out by the already bloodied teeth of the walking corpse that had shut down, and reanimated. There were others that he had taken out. Killed. Scratched. Bitten. The officers were quickly taken by those that were still alive and sacrificed to the undead so the few who remained living could survive. Outbreaks all over the city; people dying and coming back as mindless, flesh-eating beasts. Frantic people scrambled around, trying to get to their families, friends, and homes. Businesses, hospitals, homes, prisons; anywhere that people could die or be killed.
It had happened.

Some peoples' worst nightmare. Some peoples' biggest fear. Some peoples' fantasy. Some people would opt out. Others fight. Some will get too close, trust the things that were once family. Try to find another way out. Take themselves out; Just to avoid becoming a monster. Nobody wanted to become one. Nobody wanted to fight. The military was brought in...
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{20:41 Dallas,Texas, USA}

A girl, aged 17 lied on the front porch of her large farmhouse. Her long, black, braided hair frizzy from the day's work and her green eyes reflecting the sun beautifully. An abrupt loud noise from inside her home disturbed her from her relaxation: The sound of a gunshot, followed after with the piercing noise of her grandmother, screaming. The girl then sprang up, sprinting inside to find her grandfather with his brain matter on the wall. He had seen the news from New York and a few other states and opted out. He didn't want to fight.The real war was starting, and he knew he wouldn't be able to handle it. The young girl then snapped back to reality, only to see her grandmother resort to the same thing. She was now alone. She'd have to fight through this by herself if she wanted to survive.
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{02:23 London, England, UK}

Two young teenagers sit in their basement, reading the news about what's happening in the United States on their desktop computer; the internet hasn't gone yet. They know it will eventually. The two would be soon called upstairs, as their parents have scheduled a flight to the United States to visit their grandmother. The two looked at each other after being called by their parents, not even knowing if their grandmother was still alive, but not wanting to worry their parents. They turned off their computer, so they went upstairs to their parents and set off..
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{11:38 Eaton, Ohio, USA}

The two teenagers had arrived in their grandmother's town. Their family was instantly held in the airport. Their parents didn't understand what was happening; that was until they saw it happen. They saw a young man, who was obviously terrified and shaken, shoot somebody that was still living. The authorities arrested him, not being aware that certain dead come back quickly, which is what happened. The person that the young man had shot, who appeared to be a lady in her mid-40's, reanimated. She was dead from lead to the heart one second and was quickly reanimated. The teenagers exchanged glances with each other before looking at their parents, who were staring at the woman, well what was once a woman; she's nothing but a monster now to those who didn't know her. Their parents then looked down at them and their mother spoke quietly; "We've got to find a way out of here.". The two nodded and began to try to lead their parents out, leaving their belongings..
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{01:24 Dallas, Texas, USA}

The dark haired girl had dragged the corpses of her grandparents to the barn, slowly, sobbing all the way. She had seen the news and knew where she would need to go for any potential military rescue, but she also knew it would be dangerous. She sat in the old recliner that her grandfather used when he was alive, it was the chair he died in, but she knew she'd have to harden herself if she were to live through this. She'd have to be prepared for anything. For this is only the beginning.