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Epilogue

It was
Midsummer 2037. The zombie outbreak had officially started on Monday, August
18, 2036. That day had become known around the world as Australia Day Zero or
ADZ. The days that followed turned into weeks, and the weeks turned into
months. The world was set on a path of the total slaughter of the human race.

Over
the two years prior to people becoming contaminated with the zombie virus, tens
of thousands of people around the world had gone missing. With so many missing
people, many accommodations, amenities, luxuries and necessary utilities that
people were accustomed to were threatened. The people responsible for providing
these services had to scramble to keep shifts manned in order to keep the
services running. No one had any idea where these people had gone. None of them
ever came back. They were never seen again, as if they had simply disappeared.

The
first six to eight days of the outbreak were terrifying. First, 40 to 45 percent
of the world’s population had been infected with the virus at the initial outbreak.
All around the world, it appeared that people had been contaminated with the
virus at virtually the same time, no matter where they were.

During
the weeks and months that followed the beginning of the outbreak, the world had
spun out of control. In that period of time, the human race became the target
of a hunt by the zombies, like an animal’s prey being viciously slaughtered.

So
many people had been killed during the first few months that many of the
regular services had failed or were abandoned. These services that stopped were
what people had become accustomed to. Services such as electricity, water,
sewage handling, police and fire protection, transportation including the distribution
of food, communications, the banking system that controlled the money and many
other services that people used to make their lives comfortable were now gone.

In
those first few months of the zombie outbreak, nearly all the comforts that the
citizens of the world were accustomed to were gone. Everyone was in a panic. With
the loss of essentially all of the services that people had relied on, it was
as if the citizens of the world had been transported back to the mid-1900s.
People had to learn how to live like they did 175 years ago with one exception
— the addition of the zombie outbreak.

On
Friday, August 15, 2036, the first known zombie kill was recorded in the trendy
section of Harlem on Manhattan Island in New York City. Three days later, the
first official recorded occurrence of a zombie killing was reported in Melbourne,
Australia. That zombie killing officially became known as Australia Day Zero.
It would no longer be known as August 18, 2036.

In the
eight months that followed Australia Day Zero, the world had become a
dangerous, deadly place to be. There was no end in sight. Australia Day Zero
was the day that the world started to die.

Cities,
towns, countryside and rural areas of the world were all becoming fields of
death. It all began with the hundreds of thousands of people that had gone
missing. Then the first zombie killings of the outbreak started. Most people
scrambled to survive. The zombie outbreak brought out the worst in some people.
These were the thugs, thieves, road bandits or other vermin of society that
killed to take what others had gathered to survive.

In not
quite nine months since the first officially accepted zombie killing in
Melbourne, Australia, the world was no longer a safe place to live. It had gone
from a happy, healthy, place for the living to a place of fear, hiding,
running, darkness and death.

The
world would be doomed if the outbreak could not be stopped.

Why
did this happen? Was someone responsible for all of this? If someone was
responsible, why would they have begun this? To what end? What were they trying
to achieve? If this was all a grand plan, how did it all go so wrong? Did they
have a scheme to stop the killings? Or if this was a military or government
experiment that had gone horribly wrong, how could they fix it? Or could this
be Mother Nature’s way of dealing with all the wrong and illness that the human
race has inflicted upon the earth? In the last nine to twelve months, no one seemed
to have any idea of how or where the zombie outbreak originated, nor did anyone
know how to stop it.

As the
outbreak continued, like-minded people gathered together to build secure, safe
camps for themselves and others. They had made these locations that could
provide the necessary food, water, safety and other needs for the people
occupying these camps. The problem with the camps was there were simply not
enough of them to make much of a difference. The camps were scattered
throughout the world. In and of themselves, they provided small islands of hope
for the inhabitants behind the walls. Several of the larger camps were capable
of accommodating several thousand people each. Two of the larger camps were in
Nebraska, USA (called The Nebraska Survivor Camp) and in Spain (called The
Spanish Survivor Stronghold). These two camps were not the only ones in the
world.

There were
also some smaller encampments such as the enclave of a few Saudis in Buraq,
Lebanon. There was a small group of people from Leova, Moldova who had walked
as far as Karditsa, Greece, before finding a secure location to stay in.

All of
the survivor camps around the world would have to support the survivors inside
until the zombie outbreak had run its course, whatever that end was to be.

Counting
every person that had taken refuge in one of the survivor camps, the number was
less than 100,000. This number of survivors, if they all survived to the end, was
not nearly enough to quickly repopulate the world; that is, if the zombie
outbreak ended at all.

The
zombies were described as resembling corpses that could move about. They were
never thought of as living beings. Zombies, worldwide, appeared fixated on a
single task. The task was to hunt and kill as many humans they could catch.

People
found that the zombies held to a schedule to hunt humans. They were nocturnal, coming
out as sundown approached, hunting until just before sunrise.

As the
outbreak continued, people found that the zombies were afraid of fire. They
would not cross a burned or scorched area. They would flee from a burning
building or other similar structure as well as a field or forest on fire.

One of
the more disconcerting things that was discovered about zombies was that it
appeared that they had only a limited amount of time that they would exist as a
zombie before they died. Zombies were never really “alive” in the manner of a
living, breathing human being, or any other type of animal, for that matter; it
was as if a zombie was a moving, walking, killing undead corpse as the old folk
legends spoke of. A zombie was an undead being that was created to terrorize
the living. It was as if each zombie had a specific amount of time to complete
their single task of slaughtering humans before they ceased to exist
themselves.

When a
zombie’s time to die arrived, they simply stopped where they were, sat or lay down,
and gradually their bodies dissolved into a puddle of sludge or slime. It was
almost like they had built up too much internal heat, causing them to melt down
into a puddle of goo. As the zombie’s dying process became complete, the puddle
of slime would contain the clothes that it was wearing at the time. The sludge
would have some of the larger bones that did not melt down. The only thing that
did not reduce was the stench that all zombies excreted.

No one
could say that they were alive. Nothing could live with the bodily damage that
some of the zombies had.

One of
the unnerving finds was many of the humans that the zombies killed would come
back to life as zombies themselves. If this happened while anyone was watching,
the regeneration process was horrible to watch. What they saw was the shredded
body lying on the ground beginning to tremble and shake as it turned over on
its back with the legs straightened. Then the body would rise to a sitting
position. Shortly following that, the corpse would struggle to stand as a new
member of the zombies. This occurred to those who had been killed no matter how
much damage the zombies inflicted as they were slaughtered.

There
were some small advances made in the war against the zombies that gave the
world a glimmer of hope. To some, this was all that they needed to smile at
least once during their day. Maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance for the
world.

These
small advances would not be enough to prevail over the zombies and eventually win
the war, however.

The humans
had to find a way to prevail or they would perish off the face of the earth.

Something
needed to be done to stop this.

To
be continued in book two:

Zombie
World Domination:

The
Stratagem

Coming
early 2017

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

I would like to salute
the following people, for without their tireless work I could not have finished
this book.

My Beta Readers:

Melinda
Miller-Davies of Mystic Moon Publishing

Emily
Davies