Bones, Bodies and Hearts (short story)

Christina is infected and trying to pretend it isn't destroying her from the inside out. Each new kill eats away at her so she's decided to give up on the hope that only makes her existence harder. Until someone from her past comes running back into her life. Does she have the strength to fight the monster inside her to keep that dangerous hope alive?

This is an old short story I wrote years ago. It won the "horror" category of the Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Awards in 2011, then titled "Unspoken" (mostly because I couldn't think of a title!)