Scott Laurie

Death Comes

It was the smell that caught their attention, an entire street of people exited their homes to investigate the powerful smell of rot. A couple of dozen people walked into the street to talk to one another and discuss the origin of the smell. Over the sound of talking came a far more ominous sound, a sound of cracking, followed by crunching and finally a woman screaming from down the road "Run! For the love of god run!" Everyone there turned to look towards the commotion, to see a woman running up the road towards them. As she was running through the crowd of people, one of the men grabbed her "What's going on?" "Let go!" The woman slashed a knife at the mans hand. "What the hell is wrong with you lady?!" The man said, stepping away from the mad woman. "What the fuck?" One man said, looking in the direction the woman came from. Everyone turned their attention away from the woman, which she then used to run for her life. Horrified mouths were hung loose at the site they beheld. A large crowd of slow moving bodies were shambling through the street towards to onlookers, the smell of rot got stronger the closer they got. One of the men closest to the approaching crowd stepped back in fear, tripping and falling to the ground. Members of the shambling crowd surrounded the man who had begun to scream in fear and then in pain. A few brave souls rushed to the mans aid, only to be grabbed. And in front of the now truly horrified crowd, The mass of writhing, decaying bodies ripped and tore the now screaming bodies to pieces.