The sun was up so high and so was the temperature inside the school bus. The air conditioner was already set on high but didn't really deliver as it should. It was noon and her class was stuck in a traffic jam.
'Great! Way to kick off my first class field trip.' She thought to herself as the honking of pissed-off drivers reverberated through the thick glass windows of the school bus. She stood up, took a deep breath, positioned herself in the center of the aisle, and smiled at the second graders who were rather well-behaved despite the situation.
She reassured them that they'd get plenty of time to look at the animals at the zoo once they got past this horrendous traffic jam. But her plan of outdoor learning was soon cut short when a loud thud startled her and the rest of the class. The driver gasped in horror and the bus was suddenly filled with the terrified screams of the students. She turned her back on the class and there it was, just outside the bus doors: a woman in a business suit, blonde and pretty, but with hazy eyes, trying to chomp on them-- if only she could reach them.
One of the students shrieked, pointing at the distance, and the teacher looked at where the student was pointing and saw a large horde of people with the same empty expression on their faces, and gray unblinking eyes, gnawing aimlessly into the air, staggering through the traffic jam.
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Where Were You?
Mystery / ThrillerA series of short stories that tells the tale of where some people were in the beginning of mankind's decline.
