Spreading.

The Power has gone out. The patrols of soldiers have all but stopped. The dead growing in number every time I look out my boarded windows. It must be spreading. It must have gotten beyond my neighborhood now. You are probably wondering how I am posting if the power is out. I had to acquire a generator. It took some time. I had to scout several different places to find one. I was finally able to get one and some kerosene to run it about a mile from my apartment. I used my cart that I constructed for the disposal of Mitch's body to haul it back. It was not easy. The city is infested. On the way I had to drop 5 of the shuffling zombies. Still no fast ones like Mitch. Luckily one of them was a former soldier and still had his gear on. I scoured the body and came up with three magazines for my rifle and two pistol magazines. As I moved further I came across a woman. She was injured badly. I tried to help her. I couldn't stop the bleeding. It was just pouring from a would in her chest. I tried every thing I could. I think she had injured her lung. She couldn't get enough breath to speak. She just bled more and more. She was - I couldn't save her. She died there in the street. I had to move on. I had to get that generator. It took me a while to load it securely onto my cart. And unfortunately I had to break the windows of the store to get in so there was nothing keeping the zom's out. They started to shuffle in just as I got the last of the kerosene secured. I had to put three more down on the way out. I was high tailing it through the alleys back to my apartment. The cart hit a pot hole and over turned. As I was righting it I looked up to see the women from earlier! She was stirring! Had I left her too soon? No. She turned to me and I saw those dead vacant eyes. Then she bared her teeth and sprinted at me! Sprinted! She reached me before I could get my rifle off the ground where I had set it down to right the cart. She was on top of me trying with full human strength to devour me. I struggled on the ground with her. We rolled toward a garage in the alley. I struck her head against the wall of the garage several times. The last time I struck the wall was slick from her blood and her head slid to the side and wedged between the building and a fence post. She was still struggling to grab me. I drew my pistol and shot her point blank. She was so fast. I got back to my apartment as fast as possible. I am still unsure of what transmits this plague so I disinfected myself and gear with a healthy dose of bleach. I have been thinking since I got back about the speed of her and Mitch's attack. I think that when first reanimated the zombie have all the speed of there human form but it must quickly dwindle because being dead they can not regenerate the muscle and connective tissues once they start to deteriorate from use. If the outbreak has reached your area please leave me a comment. Stay alive and stay inside.

Disposal.

I had to get rid of Mitch's body. I knew I needed to get it fairly far away from my apartment in case another patrol found it and decided to retaliate in some fashion. I'd hate to be killed by the living when there is a plague of the undead out there. I also needed food and other supplies. I was completely out. I wrapped the body-I don't want to think of him as Mitch any more- in my plastic shower curtain and some cellophane. I tried to seal it as much as possible because I am still not sure what the cause of this is and how it is transmitted. I believe the bite wound he had was the major cause but I prefer to be overly cautious these days. It's amazing how heavy a body is! In movies they just fling them over there shoulder and move on. It was almost impossible to lift it from the floor. And once I did get it lifted I realized there was no way I was getting down the steps and several blocks away with it. I do Pilate's and Yoga but flexibility and toned looking muscles didn't really help in this situation. You'd have to be the hulk to fling 6' adult male over your shoulder without help! I had to rig a contraption out of the top of my coffee table and the wheels from my desk chair. I tied an extension cord to one end so I could loop it around me and pull "cot" behind my while keeping two hands on the rifle. My rifle now I guess; along with his pistol and gear. I disinfected all of it as best I could with the little bleach and disinfecting wipes I had left before I strapped it all on. I rolled the body onto the "cot" and slowly made my way down stairs. Once there I brought the body to an alley two blocks away. I rolled it off the cot and turned to leave the alley and head a block further down to a grocery when I spotted a zombie (slow again unlike Mitch) coming down the street. I ducked back into the alley and looked down at the rifle. I gave myself a quick mental refresher on how it worked and turned back into the street. I raised the rifle and clicked the safety off and lined up the optic. I shakily pulled the tricked. I missed! I fired again and struck the zombie in the shoulder. The third round hit the head and put it down. Another thing they don't tell you in movies: head shots on moving targets are extremely hard! I heard moans from all directions. Other ones must have heard the shots and now they were headed this way. I turned and started jogging toward the store. I saw a couple more on the way but they were far enough off that I didn't want to risk missing more and wasting ammo since they didn't pose an immediate threat. I got to the store and of course it was locked. I almost broke the glass but then I realized if I did that anything could get in. I looked around and noticed the cart return that lead into the store. I got down on my hands and knees and crawled through the carts. In the hast to leave they had forgotten to lock the gate on the cart return. I was in! The store was a little torn up but not bad. they must have locked up early in the crisis. I filled my cot with supplies and tied it down with some rope from the home supplies section. On my way out I spotted a zombie on the farthest check out lane. She was just running a can back and forth over the scanner. Methodical and continuous. I climbed back out the cart return and pulled the gate on it down so it looked locked. There were a few zoms waiting for me out front. I got around most of them (again they were slow) and had to shoot two (it only took me three rounds for these two). I made it back. I am not sure why MitchZom was so fast and all the other have been slow. I have to get some rest now. I'm fading fast. The patrols are almost non-existent now but the zombies are growing in number. Stay inside unless you have no choice. Look back soon for more info.