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Creative Writing: The Zombie Virus

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The day started quietly. All of my classmates listened to the teacher drone on about separating DNA with agarose gel electrophoresis. But the calm vanished when some kid we've never met crashed through the door of the lecture hall looking haggard and exasperated. “Don’t It’s...dangerous...COMING!” At that, the boy sunk to his knees, clutching his head and moaning. Right before he hit the ground though, his eyes caught mine and I could tell that this wasn’t some freaky joke meant to scare the crap out of our class. They were bloodshot and wide, seeming to burn right through my body. It was as if this kid was seeing things that we couldn’t; his eyes darted from one place to another like there were monsters lurking in every nook and cranny. …show more content…

The victims of the virus have been slowly “waking up”, but show no signs of life. Victims’ symptoms are similar to those of schizophrenia, and are becoming increasingly aggressive. There is no current cure nor treatment for this…” the news reporter paused and clutched the front of her head, “...now dubbed... ‘zombie virus’.” She moaned and, still massaging her forehead, collapsed. Shaken by what I had just heard, I looked away from the television. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a man trying to get into the room. His movements were sluggish and seemed out of his control. This told me that the virus was now spreading from the frontal lobe to the motor cortex. Not good, I thought. I looked at Stacy, who had also noticed, and with nothing more than nod we started barricading the door. After a few moments of shoving table and chairs up against the entrance where the man had attempted to come in, we had finally blocked it enough a tank couldn’t have gotten through. I slumped to the ground, weak from an adrenaline low, when I heard a low moan coming from the corner where Stacy and I had started to draw blood from the man. I slowly raised my head, and to my horror saw a gaunt, greenish figure rise from a slouched position. Flakes of dry skin shed off of him- no, it- like snow falling from the sky. But none of this compared to its eyes; black, beady marbles that stared unblinking with the intensity of the sun. a shiver of dread washed down me. Slowly, the corners of the things mouth curled up into a hideous grin, and that’s when I blacked

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