Zomby

I still can't believe it happened, I thought 'It's happening in other places, so maybe it's all a hoax.' It was about 7 or 8 A.M. in State College when the reports are flooding in. London, Cairo, Moscow, Shanghai, São Paolo, Atlanta. Zombies, that's what the media was calling them. I don't know.

I remember the watch said 3:21. The power was off for a couple of hours. The radio said it was because they'd sprung up everywhere. DC was a mess, Philly was practically all on fire, New York wasn't even worth mentioning. I happened to contact my girlfriend before the phones went down. She was okay, given the circumstances, but Detroit was a mess and what she heard was that the ... well the infection was spreading her way, I told her to bunk down with her family and that I was coming to get her. I called my parents and demanded that they come up here and I make sure that they were safe for the time. They wouldn't hear of it, my brother was still missing at the time, he lived in Philly so you know. I decided to leave and not argue any more with my parents.

It was about 7:15 when I saw my first zomby. I was skirting the city of Pittsburgh trying to remember my way to my grandfather's to check in on him. I couldn't find it so I gave up around 6 because, sadly enough for him, I had more pressing priorities. Anyway, outskirts of Pittsburgh, I jumped back on the 76 highway which was completely deserted. I have a feeling the turnpike was going to be the same. I was driving back to the 76 highway and I slowed down to see a car crash, cause, like any good human being, I love carnage. I was just passing by when I saw a pair of legs being dragged into the bushes and I stopped. I mean dead stop right there on the highway. I peered closer, because legs just don't get drug by themselves. That's when he - or she, or maybe even it? - appeared out of the bush. It looked around and finally saw my car. At the time I remember thinking to myself, 'What the hell? How did it know to look around to make sure it wasn't alone?' I kept along that line of thinking when I heard a cry or a howl, I don't know how you describe it because I had never heard it before. That's when I saw my second... third... and fourth zombies of my life. They seemed to have coordinated with each other. Staring at me, seemingly pondering another food source, they looked down at their current catch, looked back at me, growled something amongst themselves and drug the poor soul off. I immediately sped off in horror at the discovery I made.

I got to the Ohio turnpike entrance about 45 minutes after that. I admit, I was speeding, probably doin' 85-90 the whole time. There was no one in the booths, so instead of stopping and getting a ticket, I burst through the sign. Let me tell you, it's kinda thrilling knowing you can break these laws now, cause the cops seemingly have nothing better to do.