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Things were going to hell Travis and Katie felt as if the world was toppling around the at each other Jenni was screa as Mike’s voice yelled over the walkie-talkie Juan was arguing with the Mayor Jason was screa, "Get my Mom down!" And the zoet to Jenni and Mike

"Fuck me," Travis whispered

"Who’s a crack shot," Katie de around at the h the eye every time," one man said He was older and had a weather-beaten face

"Take out the zombies on the left end of the truck," Katie ordered

Travis looked sharply at her "Are you sure? They are so close to falling into the spiked area"

"As the zombies fall back, they’ll fill up the top of that ramp of dead bodies and the other zombies won’t be able to scraht be able to eliet up"

Travis studied the situation "Yeah I see that And if they try to climb, they’ll pull the bodies down on them Go for it, Ed" He nodded to the volunteer

Ed nodded and began to target the zombies

The rifle began to roar and Katie watched as the zorasping at straws, she knew it, but they had to do so ones under us," Mike shouted into the walkie-talkie

"They can’t reach you," Juan’s voice answered over the cackling static

Katie ran down the stairs fro toward her "Katie, get her down!"

"Jason, we’re doing our best without co her hands on his shoulders for ahysterically at the zo Jenni and Mike

"Why don’t we have grenades? Or flah and strained

Katie sighed and moved on toward Juan "Because we’re not soldiers, Jason We’re just trying to survive" She glanced toward the zonificantly reduced the population But there were stillto do?"

Juan was studying the situation with great intensity He lifted his walkie-talkie to his mouth "Travis, status?"

There was a burst of static then, "We slowed the up on the truck They can’t just walk up anyet up now Katie had a good idea, but it may not last The more they claw at the dead, the et back up soon if we don’t hurry"

Juan looked at Katie, then toward the zombies "I think we should pull Jenni and Mike back and leave them over the spikes and let those last few zombies fall into the spikes"

Katie winced, then nodded

"We need better weapons," Jason said angrily froet any or how to an talking into the walkie-talkie, instructing the pulley operators

Jason threw up his hands and stalked away angrily

Katie sighed and looked toward Jenni and Mike They looked so vulnerable up there The operators on the pulleys began to tug thean to leap for them A few tumbled into the no man’s land where the spikes were Tere ilanced off the spikes and landed on the ground

Juan cursed loudly in Spanish as hethe two in

Another zolanced off her shoe, but he fell hard against the hurricane fence

Another three tuainst the hurricane fence rattling it

"Gawd, this keeps getting worse," Katie ain "We have a breach" His voice sounded overwhel onto the trucks Because they had pulled Jenni and Mike back, the zo into the spiked area Many were ilanced off their undead companion’s skewered bodies

"Juan, we’re fucked if we don’t hold that line," Katie exclaimed, and moved toward the stairs that lead up to the top of the wall