The Dead Live On

The Dead Live On by Julie Cooper Brown

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from getting myself killed. The guy did have a gun, and could shoot us and say he had to because we were infected.
    As calmly as I could through a clenched jaw, I told him that his mother should have choked him to death with his own umbilical cord and accused him of joining the military just so he could kill peo ple. (I had forgotten for the moment that anybody could sign up and be a soldier in the midst of this mess and I’m willing to bet, that’s how he managed to get a gun.) I asked him if he would be smiling if that were his mother, or sister, or wife.
    He said that his mother was a whore, his sister was a cunt and he had never taken a wife. I told him it was because he was a greasy little bastard with no respect for life. Evan told me to shut up for my own good and turned me in the direction of home and walked me a safe distance away from the soldier and let me loose. The little bastard was still smiling, UGH!
    Sorry about the language, I just can’t help myself when I think of the things he said and how they didn’t even affect him. I was sure that he would get his. They say every dog has their day. And I’m a firm believer in ‘ what comes around goes around.’ I was furious! Why this video wasn’t made public, I don’t know. I could only guess it was to keep the panic down. People should know about this so they know how to better protect their selves.
    I knew when they said cannibals on TV, but this took the cake. This was no ordinary zombie, these mother fuckers could think, feel and run so fast! And they had absolutely no control over their actions. That made them more dangerous (and scarier) than any other zombie ever written of. I couldn’t imagine the pain of eating the flesh of my loved one, unable to control it and KNOWING ABOUT IT! SEEING IT! Oh my God is right.
    When we got back to Jake’s to tell him what the soldier said about Sue being returned when she was well, we dec ided not to tell him the rest.  We were afraid that if we told him, he would get himself killed because he would run down there demanding answers and the arrogant little son of a bitch would shoot him just because he would be running at him. Jake knew we were holding something back, I was sure he had seen my sudden display of anger, but he did not press us.  He hung his head and went back into the house.
    We told Old Joe about the video and the things the soldier said. He went into his house and got out his shotgun. “If that boy comes walking down this way, I’m gonna blow his cold - hearted head off. Men like that is a disgrace to our country.”
    To make a longer story short, the next day, Thursday, the soldiers came back to Jake’s and took the two boys. Jake was begging them, to let him go with them, the boys were crying and struggling in the arms of the soldiers. Old Joe, Evan and I, were all crying and pleading with them as well.
    “What could it hurt?” I asked the m. “Just let him go with them.” The fucker I talked to the day before was standing there holding the door on the back of the truck open and I thought  about what was going to happen to them and I cried much louder, unable to control it. He seemed to enjoy watching this unfold. We were unable to convince them. Asshole told us to mind our own business or we would be shot, ignoring the evil eye he was getting from the other soldiers. One of them spoke up, seems they didn’t like him either. “Shut the fuck up, Clark. We’ll do no such thing. These kids are infected. We have to take them.” He bent down to Jake and said “I’m sorry.” With tears in his eyes and a stone cold face, Old Joe told the still smirking soldier, ”I got you in my sights, boy. ”And he replied “Whenever you’re ready old man.” Old Joe nodded and said, “I’m gonna show you what this old man can do. All in due time, boy, all in due time.” 
    They kept Jake pinned face first into the ground until the truck was gone around the corner. The soldiers that had held

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