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.