Chapters (91)
- Author’s Foreword
- Part One: Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
- DURING THE OUTBREAK
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- Part Two: Fat Girl with a knife
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- Part Three: Orc Night
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- Part Four: Still of Night
- — 1 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 2 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 3 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 4 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 5 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 6 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 7 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 8 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 9 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 10 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 11 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 12 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 13 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 14 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 15 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 16 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 17 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 18 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 19 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 20 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 21 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 22 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 23 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 24 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 25 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 26 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 27 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 28 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 29 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 30 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
- — 31 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 32 —: DAHLIA AND THE PACK
- — 33 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN
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- — 36 —: HAPPY VALLEY
- — 37 —: THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
- — 38 —: THE SIEGE OF HAPPY VALLEY
- — 39 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN, THE SOLDIER, AND THE DOG
- — 40 —: THE SIEGE OF HAPPY VALLEY
- — 41 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN, THE SOLDIER, AND THE DOG
- — 42 —: HAPPY VALLEY
- — 43 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN, THE SOLDIER, AND THE DOG
- — 44 —: HAPPY VALLEY
- — 45 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN, THE SOLDIER, AND THE DOG
- — 46 —: HAPPY VALLEY
- — 47 —: THE WARRIOR WOMAN, THE SOLDIER, AND THE DOG
- — 48 —: THE SIEGE OF HAPPY VALLEY
- — 49 —: THE WAR
- EPILOGUE
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- The Zombie Apocalypse Chronology
Church, who had not made a single move, shook his head. “We could kill you all right now. It would be easy. It shouldn’t be easy, but you’ve made it easy. And you’ve made it tempting.” He pointed to the walls, where more of the Pack now held guns while others took weapons from the sentries. “Those whistles are real, Margaret. So are the Rovers. They’re coming, and there are more of them than there are of us. They are a more professional army. Dahlia and I took your town with a group composed mostly of kids. Imagine what the Rovers will do.”
His smile was somehow much colder and less human than Van Sloane’s alligator leer.
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THE SOLDIER AND THE DOG
So, there’s this young woman, Rachael Elle. Smart, feisty, tough as hell, and a little weird. Dresses up like superheroes and calls the walking dead “orcs,” like out of Tolkien.
Now, there is nothing wrong with being crazy. A good argument can be made that going nuts is an entirely appropriate way of dealing with the end of the world and the rise of the living dead. Sanity is certainly no buffer against that.
A similar argument can be made, and successfully litigated, that I, myself, am—in purely clinical psychological terms—as crazy as a bag of hamsters. This is not a news flash to anyone who’s known me since I was a teenager.
However, sometimes things are so downright loony-tunes that even I wonder if my insanity dial has been turned to eleven.
Mind you, as a rule I am too old to be shocked by much anymore. I have both been there and done that and seen a lot of this world’s weirdest shit. Trust me on this. Sometimes, though, the universe just up and tries to fuck with you.
Case in point.
The random woman being carried into the woods was Rachael. Don’t ask me how the hell she got from where I last saw her to here. Don’t begin to ask me to calculate the odds or explain the probabilities of chance necessary to put the two of us together again like this. Stephen Hawking couldn’t have worked out those numbers. It not only proves there’s a god, but He’s also out of his fucking mind.