Zombies

Shambling hordes of hungry horrors, they descended on us like locusts

 

They were undead eating machines that left nothing in their path

 

With strangled cries and haunted faces, the mob lurched forward

 

A lone straggler shambled into view, his face a ghastly ruin

 

The shuffling of dead feet on broken glass alerted me to their presence

 

The air was alive with hunger and nothing else

 

It moaned and moved toward me, moldy lips peeling back from broken gums

 

The thing was missing most of its face, but still it would not die

 

A blood-caked abomination crawled into view, its lower half gone

 

Creeping, crawling, the creatures came on, horrible in their hunger

 

Blood drooling from mangled lips, she shambled forward

 

The wind blew the stench of rotting meat ahead of the mob

 

A low, frustrated moan came from the attacker

 

I could hear the slow, soft shuffle of dragging feet on broken glass

 

His clothes were badly torn, like pack of wild dogs had been at him

 

Its head turned, a puckered hole in its neck stretching and tearing

 

The flesh tore with a wet, sucking sound as the ghouls feasted on the remains

 

Motor control wasn't the creature's strong suit

 

The eyes were milky-white, clouded over, and saw only the nameless hunger of the dead

 

The bluish lips pulled back from the gums, revealing cracked yellow teeth

 

She hissed softly and shuffled in my direction

 

The zombie whined in surprise to find its prey snatched away at the last instant

 

It tried to clamber through the wrecked door and stuff my face into its putrid, slobbering mouth

 

Little by little, the bloody strip of meat vanished between its teeth

 

The monster ate his face like he was the main course at a four-star restaurant

 

Growls of frustration followed me as I ran from them

 

She sank her bloodstained teeth into the living meat, ripping off a hairy chunk of his arm

 

The zombie's eyes closed in ecstasy as it chewed noisily on the entrails

 

The unkillable cannibals howled and surged to the sound of my voice

 

The pasty-faced ghoul scrabbled after me, biting at air

 

The cannibal dead cried out for blood in the language of the grave

 

Her unholy fingers curled into claws and scratched at the glass

 

I awoke to the sound of pounding fists and breaking glass

 

The bullets knocked some of the sick people down, but they kept getting back up again

 

He was moving fast for a dead guy, closing the gap with long, loping strides

 

His fingers splayed out, questing for my flesh

 

The lower-half of its jaw was sheared away, tongue licking at lips that were no longer there

 

The grime-covered hands of the dead clawed at my legs as I climbed

 

These things had been my neighbors once, my family and friends

The creature's mouth gaped wide, eager to devour

 

A half-dozen ghouls ran forward and yanked at the trailing guts

 

It shoved the girl's arm into its mouth and bit down‌—‌hard

 

The flesh-hungry mob batted the air and growled

 

The swarm surged in all directions, an endless line of teeth and claws

 

Dozens of hungry ghouls pressed into the gap

 

Sticky, infected fingers smeared blood and bile across the window glass

 

Her jaws snapped shut spasmodically, trying to gnaw through the glass

 

He saw me and hissed hateful hunger through the pulsing ruin of his ripped-out throat

 

The zombie charged forward on unsteady legs

 

More zombies‌—‌shadows in the moonlight‌—‌spilled out of the store

 

The ghastly horde closed in, intent on eating them alive

 

The ghoul exploded on impact like a blood-filled water balloon

 

His chest was a raw wound that should have made it impossible for him to live

 

Gore-guzzling ghouls gaped and moaned

 

The flesh-ripping feast had begun

 

It was an orgy of toxic hunger

 

A thousand slack-jawed Satans stared up at him, their hungry mouths promising damnation

 

The infected horror shambled to meet me, ghastly lips drooling gore

 

It chewed into her neck with a savage grinding sound

 

The hungry corpse bit down, drawing blood

 

The dead creature's jaws clamped shut on my arm

 

It was ripping and tearing at a piece of bloodied flesh between its teeth

 

The ravenous undead swallowed its ghastly meal and came back for more

 

The gut-ripping horror got up on jerky legs and staggered toward me

 

The zombies were a shambling mass of mindless hunger

 

The diseased army of death staggered, shambled and crawled

 

Infected spit and gnashing teeth came up to meet me

 

His eyes were murky, the life bleached out

 

The shambler with the missing jaw led the pack in my direction

 

The creep with the oozing eye sockets blindly staggered forward

 

The zombie mob moaned in frustration as I ducked back out of sight

 

Hungry eyes and half-rotten faces leered back at me

 

The milling mass of hungry dead made it impossible to go forward

 

The city was a deathtrap, its streets choked with smashed cars and living dead

 

The street was teeming with the corpses that would not die

 

The dead came pouring out of every car, every building

 

A crowd of zombies pulled him from the wrecked car, tearing him apart

 

A blood-red rain drooled from its crimson lips as it fed

 

The zombie's teeth came away glistening with their scarlet prize

 

The dead thing gnawed on her body, sucking up the last of life's juices