The Dead Among Us (Chapter 7: Enter Sandman)
0900 hours"Beunos dias! Que pasa? It's a good morning, no?" I nodded towards my lieutenant, Ricky, as I was coming out of the master bedroom of our villa. Ricky Gonzalez and I are second cousins, but he and I grew up so close, we basically call each...
The Dead Among Us (Chapter 6: With Love)
The day was going rather slowly. Nothing much was happening, and I was beginning to feel anxious. Someone special to me had only just tried to contact me over radio, and I never even got the chance to respond before they were gone again. Gone out of my...
The Dead Among Us (Chapter 5: Eye on the Prize)
The streets are lonely these days. It seems it only took five days for all hell that had broken loose to finally settle down. I guess everything crashes eventually.Walking down the lane, I find not a soul-- living or dead-- walking along with me to...
The Dead Among Us (Chapter 4: Smitten)
It's been four weeks since we took over. I won't even bother writing down the times I put in entries; I've lost track. We have to take inventory today. Then Jack and I have to go over plans to extend the walls out to Crabbe, if we can. We've had...
The Dead Among Us (Chapter 3: Just for Snickers)
1318 hoursSo, long story short, we cleared the base out fairly quickly. Turned out we had more people on the ground then we thought. Most of them soldiers, obviously, and the majority of those being Special Forces and stuff, since that what this base...
The Dead Among Us (Chapter 2: Deliver Us)
1147 hoursThere's a dead man in the back of my helicopter. He's dead from shock. Apparently ether isn't as effective on a six foot eight inch, two hundred pound grown ass man as it is on the average person. And I use 'average' loosely here.Gale's...
The Dead Among Us (Chapter 1: Genesis)
March 2nd, 2012This isn't something you ask for.Who asks for this sort of thing? Who wants this?...And yet... it's unbelievably necessary.When I was twelve, the Boy Scouts taught me to Be Prepared for anything. Well... how can anyone prepare for this?I...
TDAU Chapter 4: "Catching Up"
When I was living in El Paso with my mother before she remarried, I acquired a certain love for Mexican food. Fajitas, enchiladas, chile relleno (a personal favorite), flautas, churros, tacos, all of it. The next place my group and I would hop over to...
TDAU Chapter 3: Don't Let Go
Since he was born, I had always told him I would never let anything happen to him. Never. Always holding him to my chest, whispering in his folded ears, "No, son, never. You're gonna be okay. Poppa's got ya." I should've known better. I was lying to a...
Pheonix (Chapter 1)
"Gambler-1, come in.. This is Stalker 2-5, I'm going down just outside OP Bagpipe. One of them bastards clipped my tail, and I think I lost my crew... My co- is dead, repeat, my co-pilot is dead. 25-mil got him in the fuckin' collar bone, please...
TDAU Chapter 2: "Wandering"
Not long after the sun rose, Felice and I were up and about, getting ourselves ready to hit the road. We went to the spot where we hid the jugs of water, and I got on my knees to start sifting through the loose dirt for one of the containers. Felice...
The Dead Among Us, Chapter 1: "Genesis"
"Genesis" Two men stood alone on the road leading on to the next town. It was an empty, desolate path, each of its edges lined with dead, dried-up pine needles and spruce leaves. The atmosphere smelled faintly of juniper, not surprising for a forest...