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The back door was solid, but also hadpanes in it Silently praying that Kang didn’t have an alarm system, I pulled h the glass in one of the panes Reaching through to unlock the door, I could feel dilass had sliced into my hand and arishly from the slices then stopped I tucked my arm further up into er of dripping blood anywhere

I wasn’t greeted with a shrieking siren when I pushed the door open, and I didn’t see a control pad anywhere, so at least that ht I e He had it well-stocked and it was obvious that he enjoyed cooking, butto any stash of brains in there Still, I opened every container and took a deep whiff to be sure I checked the freezer next, heart sinking at the sight of about a dozen boxes of frozen pizza but no bags or containers or anything that could hold brains

This didn’tpanic, I prowled through the house, searching for anything that could function as a cooler or a fridge I thought I struck gold when I found the deep freeze out in the garage, but disappointain when I saw that it was full of more frozen dinners

I stumbled back into the house If I’d been able to cry I’d have been sobbing in frustration This couldn’t be happening to me He had to have brains soe unit or so like that? If that was the case, I was totally fucked I couldn’t go outside again I barelyso dully at the high quality pots and pans hanging froe Maybe it would be for the best if the zoht dully I didn’t want to be a murderer Best to take me out before I killed anyone It wouldn’t be hard to findzombies, that’s what I’d do--find their food source

Food

I clambered back to my feet Why the hell would someone who loved to cook have so many frozen dinners? I pulled the freezer open and yanked the top box off the stack, noting absently that it was for some sort of diet entrée Moron That should have been your first clue I ripped the top of the box off, pulled the plastic open, inhaled I hadn’t smelled it earlier because they were frozen and sealed in plastic, but now I knew I’d struck gold

I didn’t bother heating it I didn’t care if they were frozen, though I giggled stupidly as I shoved the frozen brains into my mouth Brain freeze! Sensation returned ininto my body I was dimly aware that there was real foodProperly heated it would probably be fantastic I didn’t care about fantastic at the ot in the way of the brains, but I continued to craan to spread throughrelief I felt like one of those shirts that only show color in sunlight--and I was getting a tan now, baby

I ate until I couldn’t possibly stuff in another bite and the hunger had curled into sated, sleepy comfort The rest of me followed suit shortly after

I experienced an instant of sheer panic when I woke and found myself on an unfamiliar kitchen floor Meht of several empty Lean Menu boxes scattered around me, and I allowed myself to relax a bit It was still dark outside and the clock on the stove read 3:17 And I haven’t been beheaded by a zos are looking better

I crue clean garbage bag That’s probably why I couldn’t find the brains at the funeral horin as I du I could barely sed and frozen like this Oh, well I sure as hell wasn’t going to go back to the funeral ho’s body had been found yet, but considering that no cops had shown up here, I was going to keep operating on the theory that it hadn’t been Guilt tightenedin that hallway But there was no way forht when I was rotting and falling apart And I couldn’t do it now What excuse would I have for finding hiy to Kang He’d have understood He’d have done the saht with a sad smile He was tooat the back door, I grilass That looked suspicious as all hell I sighed and swept one all over the place with no gloves Screw it If by some chance the cops ca and I were friends and I’d been here before

Working quickly, I swept up the glass and dumped it under the empty frozen dinner boxes in the trash Next, I fashioned a repair for the backout of duct tape and cardboard that would hopefully have any cops believing it was old dae After all, what intruder would bother to patch the hole they’d lass? Plus, if they searched the house, they wouldn’t find any valuablesof brains, locked the back door at the knob and closed it behind me, took a deep breath to see if anyone was nearby I blew it out a second later with a roll of my eyes Zombie super-s Yeah, well, I’ll gladly trade not-rotten for super-smell, I decided as I took off in a sprint for my car I was fully tanked up now, and even as probably thirty pounds of frozen brain-dinners weighing ured it was better to look suspicious because I was running with a garbage bag than to look suspicious because I alking with a garbage bag, because at least there’d be less ti

My car was still where I’d left it Ain relief and triuetaas the first step But now I had a bag full of frozen brains, and this was south Louisiana Even in late October it could get pretty war the day, and I sure as hell didn’t want to lose a stash of this as station that sold cheap styrofoaht way s of brains out of the cardboard boxes so that I could fit them all into the cooler, and in short order I had the whole lot iced down I figured I had el, you have a cooler full of stuff that is vital to your fucking survival Which meant that I needed to th Avoiding them was my usual method, but that would prove pretty disastrous here