Say Goodbye To America/Issue 18

Life Won't Wait
Lawrence: This is a very serious wound. Thank god it didn’t hit a very important area. Julio said he was startled

Johnno: Who died here?

Lawrence: We lost more than one

Johnno: Who?

Lawrence: Casmir’s daughter and the boy, I don’t remember his name, they ran into the woods for no reason. I went after them. Found the boy dead. I’m not so sure about the girl

Johnno: Oh lord

Lawrence: Yea. Hola Julio. Qué estás haciendo aquí

Julio: Sólo para decir que lo siento. ¿Estás bien?

Johnno: I’m okay. Lawrence says it’s a miracle nothing important was hit

Julio: No puedo decir que lo siento lo suficientemente.

Johnno: What?

Lawrence: He says he can’t say sorry enough

Johnno: Oh. I need a translator around him

Lawrence: HA

Johnno: So how long you keeping me here for?

Lawrence: I’d say a day or two

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Johnno: Can I use my arm at all?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Lawrence: Probably take about a week until your able to use it again

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Johnno: That’s a pain in the ass

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Lawrence: More of a pain in the arm

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Johnno: Don’t start

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rufus: Hey champ, how are ya?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Johnno: Doin’ fine, doc says

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rufus: That’s good

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Danielle: My husband says he’s sorry for shooting yours

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Kelly: My what?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Danielle: Your husband, Johnno

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Kelly: We’re not married. We’re not even dating. We met a few months ago in a church after the outbreak. My family met up with his group

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Danielle: Sí.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Kelly: How long have you and Julio been married?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Danielle: Let’s see, Regina is seventeen years old, than we’ve been married for twenty years

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Kelly: Wow. You look a hell of a lot younger than 40

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Danielle: I’m thirty eight years old

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Kelly: Damn. I’m twenty three. How old is Julio?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Danielle: Forty

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Kelly: Damn. You guys look so young

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Reagan: So where did you guys come from?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Bob: North Carolina. One of the great shit holes of America

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Lola: We’ve been walking for months

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Mark: My school was overrun after a few days. I left with a couple friends. We made it to my house before one of them had an asthma attack. He died soon after. We didn’t know that you didn’t need to be bitten to turn. That is, until he turned and bit my other friend. I killed both of them

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Sophie: Damn

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">-

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rose: Gary, you need to slow down

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Gary: I’ll slow down when I die. And when I do, I need you to finish me off

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rose: I can’t do that. I can’t

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Gary: Well luckily we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rose: How much ammo do you have left?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Gary: Half a mag now

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rose: How much time do you think you have now?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Gary: Enough. Life won’t wait for me. Fate won’t either. It’s all death’s idea. He takes who he wants, when he wants them

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">''His voice is but a faint whisper. Rose knows he has little to no time left. So do all the walkers in the area. They start coming out from behind the trees and slowly move towards them ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Gary: Take it. I’m a shitty shot anyway

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rose: There aren’t enough bullets

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Gary: I know. I know

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">''Rose aims at the first walker ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Blam

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">''It goes down. She aims at the next two ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Blam. Blam. Blam

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">''She takes out the next three. Several more come out into the area ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Gary: This won’t work. Take out your knife and we can slaughter these bastards

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">''They run at the walkers and stab then in the heads and faces. They make a clearing and take it. They’re free ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rose: I have one bullet left

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Gary: Save it for later

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">-'' ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">''It’s late at night as Mark is asleep in a tent ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Lisa: Your nephew is a badass

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Bob: Think I didn’t know that? Ever since he came out weeks before his birth date from my sister in law’s womb. He’s told that story of him killing his friends to everyone we meet. He didn’t tell you the rest

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Isaac: What do you mean?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Lola: He told us that when it all happened he found some guns in the principal’s office that had been taken from a failed school shooting a few weeks before. A Derringer, a few AK’s and a M1911. Thanks to a kid they told and the police, they shot only one kid. The children fired upon the police though, and all five of them died. Mark gave the guns to his four best friends and a teacher. The two Mark told you he killed were bit or a walker, yes, but the other two came with us. Lola and I went with one of the boys to get some supplies. The boy was eaten alive. We came back to find the teacher and the other boy dead. Mark said the teacher tried to rape them both. He killed the other boy and Mark killed the teacher. It was the only time I ever saw my nephew cry

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">--

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">“AAAUUUGGGHHH”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Bob: Mark

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">BLAM!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">''The group runs into the forest towards the sound of the gunshot and the scream ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Lola: Mark, are you alright?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Mark: It bit me on the hand

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">---

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">''Rose wakes up to the sound of a low growl. She looks up to see Gary standing over her. She screams at the top of her lungs. She then sees a small person in the shadows, who yells at the walker. The walker runs at him, and the child fumbles his gun. Rose then pulls the trigger and hits Gary in the back of the head. The boy starts to bleed from his hand ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Lola: Mark, are you alright?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Mark: It bit me on the hand, but this lady killed it for me

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Isaac: Hello Rose

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rose: Hello Isaac

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Bob: You know each other

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rose: And we know the walker

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Lisa: Who?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Rose: Gary

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">''' Credits '''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Johnno Topsy

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Kelly Blake

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Rose Harrison

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Sophie Seamus

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Reagan Timm

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Julio Lopez

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Danielle Lopez

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Isaac Ames

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Rufus Stewertson

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Lisa Anderson

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Bobbert Rands

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Mark Rands IV

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Lola Rands

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Gary Tauren (Alive and Zombified)

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Regina Lopez (Mentioned)

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">''' Deaths '''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%">Gary Tauren