January 21, 2023

We had abandoned our first safehouse because it had been overrun by the undead. Now that we were restocked again, we decided to come back to reclaim our base. We made a brief stop to rest at some nearby houses. We were joined by many other survivors and my dad got a grill out to cook for all of them.

Some of the other groups got the idea to call some zombies over to help thin out the crowd before we made out way over to safehouse. They were able to pick off stragglers without any difficulties and were at such ease that they let children run around the place. I warned them to not let their guard down as some of the zombies were faster than the others.

A kid came running back towards us. Behind him was a particularly large zombie staggering in our direction. I retreated past a guy with a handgun and told him that we were leaving it up to him. We watched him from a distance shoot the zombie in the shoulder which crumpled to the ground.

Then followed another shot. And another. But the zombie at his feet wouldn’t stay down. Suddenly the body exploded into a mass of fleshy appendages which pulled in and swallowed both the kid and the man with the gun. Chaos broke out as everyone panicked and ran for their cars. I failed to get into a car in time as they drove away. I retreated into the closed off tunnel nearby and hoped that I didn’t attract any attention my way.