One Hour to Live

Kevin McNally had experienced a lot of good things in his life, at least that how he felt.

But as we look back at Kevin’s life, maybe he had been a little unlucky.

His mother died when he was young, then his dad was injured in a mining accident.

His hometown, Bolivar Pennsylvania, was practically a ghost town by the time he graduated high school, when the mines shutdown forcing the town’s residents to leave and search for work elsewhere.

Then when Kevin left to go to college, he couldn’t understand why he never heard from his girlfriend Lisa.

The summer with Lisa before he left for school had been amazing and he couldn’t understand what had happened.

That instance probably wasn’t bad luck, that was more of a case of Kevin just screwing up.

But, then again, I guess you could say his screw up was a result of bad luck.

But Kevin had pushed on and tried to focus on the good things in his life.

One day Kevin found that he just might have a second chance to rekindle his relationship with Lisa.

It was the day he had hoped for, the last two years.

Unfortunately, the day he received his second chance was also the day the dead overran his hometown.

Kevin’s timing had never been very good.

Kevin soon realized that he wasn’t just unlucky.

Cursed more accurately described Kevin’s life over the last year since the dead arrived.

Unlucky suggested that he actually had a chance.

As Kevin looked back, none of them really had much of a chance to survive.

Cursed, maybe, maybe not, but things were about to get even worse.

Today, Kevin really screwed up.

Or maybe he was just unlucky, really, really, unlucky.

In either case, Kevin knew he wouldn’t live through the next hour.

What would the next hour bring?

Some good luck would be nice, but I wouldn’t count on it.

All I can say is that it would not be a good day the few remaining residents of the town of Bolivar.