“Choppers ready Jana.”
Jana nodded and walked off. She was exhausted. She couldn’t
wait to hand over the reins to Dillon. She was ready. She had dedicated her life
to study the virus. She traveled the world, went to the finest colleges and
studied with top scientists. She was tired, worn out. She would study the virus
and travel. No more roundups for her.
You can’t bring the dead back to life.
Jana took one more look at the farm before she climbed into
the chopper. As the chopper lifted into the air, Jana’s thoughts went to the
serum. The serum she had used on Ed was from the marrow of an old zombie she
kept in her underground lab. It had worked several years earlier on a young
woman who was bit in Allentown, Pa. The woman was still alive and functioning
semi-normally, though she did hunger for raw meat. Her speech was greatly
affected and she communicated with grunts and gestures. Still, it was miracle.
Her blood was still being tested for the newest batch of serum.
Jana wondered why Ed didn’t show the same type of results.
Was it because he was older, male, was it the blood type? Did she arrive too
late? She had so many questions.
She just wanted to wind up her research on the serum she
gave Ed. No effect. She needed a live specimen. But who?
True, the society had several old timers who have
signed up as volunteers. Most of them are battling terminal cancer. They are
suffering the lingering effects of the cancer eating away at their livers, lungs
and brains. They are happy to indulge a little scientific research of trial and
error and escape the lingering slow death that hovers before them. They have
signed waivers and are anxiously waiting to test the vaccine.
It only…
Jana was abruptly pulled out of her thoughts as her cell
phone rang. It was Dillon.
“Jana, shit, I just got another call. Some kids found a
body at one of the ice caves, a well preserved body. Jana, it’s
all over the news.”
“What ice cave? Where?” Jana asked, practically yelling
over the noise of the helicopter.
“Trout Creek State Park in central Pennsylvania. I just
found out; do you remember Isaiah? Round up in ’88? He heard it on the police
scanner and called me. One of the kids suffered a bite. Well supposedly it
wasn’t a bite; the woman was a frozen mess. Apparently the boy scrapped his arm
on her teeth. It was a dare from one boy to the next to touch the body. I just
emailed you the link.”
Jana dug through her bag until she found her laptop and
clicked it on. Impatiently she waited until she was able to find a connection
then quickly logged into her email account. She clicked the link Dillon had
emailed to her.
-----------------------------------
The Daily News
Sunday Breaking News!
Strange Mystery Surrounds Frozen Body
The body of an unidentified female was discovered late this
morning at Trout Creek State Park by a group of teenagers. The night before, 4
boys had been hiking in the forest when a sprained ankle caused them to stop and
find a place to camp for the night where they discovered an ice mine, indigenous
to the region.
The boys entered the cave only to find a body of a female
almost entirely encased in ice.
“Removal of the body”, said Medical Examiner Dave Davis,
who was called to the scene, “was tricky”. “What is odd about this,” said the
coroner, “is that she appears to be dressed in clothes commonly seen from the
60’s. If her clothes are any indication of how long she had been in the ice
mine, she has been frozen for over 50 years.” Mr. Davis even went as far as to
state this as ‘peculiar’.
Dave Davis also stated, “The majority of the body is buried
under the ice. We had to dig into the ice surrounding the body to remove the
body intact and the body has been partially thawed using steamers. If you
remember the man we found last winter frozen in the lake, he was thawed in this
manner and without
Jana nodded and walked off. She was exhausted. She couldn’t
wait to hand over the reins to Dillon. She was ready. She had dedicated her life
to study the virus. She traveled the world, went to the finest colleges and
studied with top scientists. She was tired, worn out. She would study the virus
and travel. No more roundups for her.
You can’t bring the dead back to life.
Jana took one more look at the farm before she climbed into
the chopper. As the chopper lifted into the air, Jana’s thoughts went to the
serum. The serum she had used on Ed was from the marrow of an old zombie she
kept in her underground lab. It had worked several years earlier on a young
woman who was bit in Allentown, Pa. The woman was still alive and functioning
semi-normally, though she did hunger for raw meat. Her speech was greatly
affected and she communicated with grunts and gestures. Still, it was miracle.
Her blood was still being tested for the newest batch of serum.
Jana wondered why Ed didn’t show the same type of results.
Was it because he was older, male, was it the blood type? Did she arrive too
late? She had so many questions.
She just wanted to wind up her research on the serum she
gave Ed. No effect. She needed a live specimen. But who?
True, the society had several old timers who have
signed up as volunteers. Most of them are battling terminal cancer. They are
suffering the lingering effects of the cancer eating away at their livers, lungs
and brains. They are happy to indulge a little scientific research of trial and
error and escape the lingering slow death that hovers before them. They have
signed waivers and are anxiously waiting to test the vaccine.
It only…
Jana was abruptly pulled out of her thoughts as her cell
phone rang. It was Dillon.
“Jana, shit, I just got another call. Some kids found a
body at one of the ice caves, a well preserved body. Jana, it’s
all over the news.”
“What ice cave? Where?” Jana asked, practically yelling
over the noise of the helicopter.
“Trout Creek State Park in central Pennsylvania. I just
found out; do you remember Isaiah? Round up in ’88? He heard it on the police
scanner and called me. One of the kids suffered a bite. Well supposedly it
wasn’t a bite; the woman was a frozen mess. Apparently the boy scrapped his arm
on her teeth. It was a dare from one boy to the next to touch the body. I just
emailed you the link.”
Jana dug through her bag until she found her laptop and
clicked it on. Impatiently she waited until she was able to find a connection
then quickly logged into her email account. She clicked the link Dillon had
emailed to her.
-----------------------------------
The Daily News
Sunday Breaking News!
Strange Mystery Surrounds Frozen Body
The body of an unidentified female was discovered late this
morning at Trout Creek State Park by a group of teenagers. The night before, 4
boys had been hiking in the forest when a sprained ankle caused them to stop and
find a place to camp for the night where they discovered an ice mine, indigenous
to the region.
The boys entered the cave only to find a body of a female
almost entirely encased in ice.
“Removal of the body”, said Medical Examiner Dave Davis,
who was called to the scene, “was tricky”. “What is odd about this,” said the
coroner, “is that she appears to be dressed in clothes commonly seen from the
60’s. If her clothes are any indication of how long she had been in the ice
mine, she has been frozen for over 50 years.” Mr. Davis even went as far as to
state this as ‘peculiar’.
Dave Davis also stated, “The majority of the body is buried
under the ice. We had to dig into the ice surrounding the body to remove the
body intact and the body has been partially thawed using steamers. If you
remember the man we found last winter frozen in the lake, he was thawed in this
manner and without
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