Enter Claira. Claira is six years old. Two weeks after first infection, the disease has spread into Claira's calm and mild home, which then spilled into the chaotic streets. At only six years old, Claira doesn't know to find shelter or protection, so she stands on the sidewalk looking at the bloodied faces of the infected people running around her. Dazed and confused, Claira searches for her brother, sister, father and mother. Claira wouldn't know what to do without her mother.
"Mommy!" Claira screams, beckoning her mother closer, "Mommy? Where are you Mommy?!" Claira catches a glimpse of her brother's "Harvard" sweatshirt. "Jimmy! Jimmy I'm frightened!"
Enter Jimmy. Jimmy is eighteen years old, and although he is very popular among the Harvard class and his rowing crew, he still lives at home with his mother and father and two sisters, Claira and Ashlynne. Jimmy takes Harvard classes in physics and creative writing, mixing them together to create science fiction. Jimmy has three published works, one short science fiction story, an informational essay that caused him to skip two grades and be accepted into Harvard, and a science fiction novel based upon humanity taking refuge in space due to an increasing amount of deaths on Earth due to a massive pandemic. Jimmy no longer lives in science fiction now that it has become science fact. Jimmy hears his little sister's voice: "Mommy? Where are you Mommy?!" Jimmy immediately remembers his neighbor bite his mother on the arm so hard he ripped off the entire bicep. Jimmy also remembers what happens to the people that are bitten by the infected. Last Monday when Jimmy went to rowing practice, his captain came late with a wound on his thigh and a fever of 106. Practice ended early when the captain took a chunk out of his girlfriend. "Jimmy! Jimmy, I'm frightened!" Jimmy hears his sister call.
"Baby, wait right there I'm coming!" Jimmy screams back. Pushing out his shoulder, Jimmy runs through the packed mob of screaming people, looking like a football player. He considers joining the football team, but only briefly before returning to reality. Once Jimmy finally finds his little sister, he picks her up in his arms and tucks her head down into his neck where it meets his shoulder like a firefighter. Again Jimmy's mind wanders to a new career choice. Making his way to the nearest opening in blood and people, Jimmy feels his sister raise her head to look behind him.
"Mommy! There you are!" Jimmy's heart stops when he hears this, he forces himself not to turn around and see his undead mother. "Jimmy? Why is Mommy covered in blood? Is she going to be okay?"
Jimmy turns around just in time to see his mother, covered in someone else's blood, start running toward them.
"Mommy!" Claira screams, beckoning her mother closer, "Mommy? Where are you Mommy?!" Claira catches a glimpse of her brother's "Harvard" sweatshirt. "Jimmy! Jimmy I'm frightened!"
Enter Jimmy. Jimmy is eighteen years old, and although he is very popular among the Harvard class and his rowing crew, he still lives at home with his mother and father and two sisters, Claira and Ashlynne. Jimmy takes Harvard classes in physics and creative writing, mixing them together to create science fiction. Jimmy has three published works, one short science fiction story, an informational essay that caused him to skip two grades and be accepted into Harvard, and a science fiction novel based upon humanity taking refuge in space due to an increasing amount of deaths on Earth due to a massive pandemic. Jimmy no longer lives in science fiction now that it has become science fact. Jimmy hears his little sister's voice: "Mommy? Where are you Mommy?!" Jimmy immediately remembers his neighbor bite his mother on the arm so hard he ripped off the entire bicep. Jimmy also remembers what happens to the people that are bitten by the infected. Last Monday when Jimmy went to rowing practice, his captain came late with a wound on his thigh and a fever of 106. Practice ended early when the captain took a chunk out of his girlfriend. "Jimmy! Jimmy, I'm frightened!" Jimmy hears his sister call.
"Baby, wait right there I'm coming!" Jimmy screams back. Pushing out his shoulder, Jimmy runs through the packed mob of screaming people, looking like a football player. He considers joining the football team, but only briefly before returning to reality. Once Jimmy finally finds his little sister, he picks her up in his arms and tucks her head down into his neck where it meets his shoulder like a firefighter. Again Jimmy's mind wanders to a new career choice. Making his way to the nearest opening in blood and people, Jimmy feels his sister raise her head to look behind him.
"Mommy! There you are!" Jimmy's heart stops when he hears this, he forces himself not to turn around and see his undead mother. "Jimmy? Why is Mommy covered in blood? Is she going to be okay?"
Jimmy turns around just in time to see his mother, covered in someone else's blood, start running toward them.
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