Zombie Town

by R.L. Stine

legs trembled. This is no joke! I realized. There are such things as zombies! Somehow, Zombie Town has become real! And I was living in it! That’s why the bus and the cars had been going so fast. They were trying to escape. That’s why the Kwikee-Mart was empty. The owner abandoned it. He didn’t even take time to grab all his money. That explained the empty houses with their doors flung open. The deserted cars. The abandoned dirt bike and leaf blower. Everyone had run. Run for their lives. Because the zombies were taking over the town! But not everyone made it out, I realized. Some of them must have been eaten. And some of them became zombies. Like my family. Zipper suddenly snarled, snapping me out of my terrifying thoughts. I stared down at him. Blue-green mold already covered the dog’s teeth, but they still appeared sharp. And those sharp teeth were clamped around a bone. A long, thick bone, with chunks of flesh still dangling from it. My stomach flipped over. Was that a human bone? Snarling hungrily, Zipper held the bone down with one paw. He ripped off a fat chunk of flesh and sucked it into his mouth. My stomach lurched. Zipper growled.