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Chapter 1

"So you hiding a body in here or su chuckle as I pulled open the door of e unit, but behind his show of amusement was an avid curiosity that he was clearly desperate to satisfy His question held a certain irony, considering that he fit the ie of a serial killer a lotin lank tendrils from beneath a soiled Saints ball cap, his "Stor-This!" t-shirt with cut-off sleeves revealed slender ar amount of muscle definition, and he apparently had the nervous habit of biting his nails--so severely that the tips of several fingers bore scabs

On the other hand, I was the one who had a large chest freezer in a storage unit Okay, yeah, so maybe that was a teensy bit suspicious I could practically see the possibilities whirling behind his yellow-tinged eyes Perhaps I was hiding the body of a past boyfriend? Maybe a parent? How about a too-nosy storage unit er?

"Nah," I replied with a friendly s sprees and didn’t have any room back at ot to go to waste, y’know?" I flipped the lid of the freezer open so that he could see the contents He peered in, hungry curiosity shifting to disappointht of several dozen frozen dinners, various plastic containers, and a couple of slabs of ribs wrapped in plastic Definitely no corpses Even the ribs were obviously non-huin

"Oh Yeah, okay Makes sense" He straightened and stepped back as I placed two more plastic containers in the freezer

"Made a big batch of soup yesterday," I explained as the hunger nudged athard to be super careful about not splurging I knew I needed to ration ht noever, I’d learned from hard experience not to depend on that "I ran out of rooht as well put it out here for later on" I closed the lid, made sure it was fully clasped "Sorry, no bodies!" I said with a laugh

Hiss now that he knew there was nothing e unit nu he had no idea that the contents of the freezer were far worse than a corpse

He wandered back up to the office while I closed and locked the unit There was nothing at all that said I had to show him as in my unit, but I knew damn well that if I hadn’t let him look he’d have probably broken in to satisfy his curiosity, and then I’d have run the risk that the contents of the freezer would be ruined

The slabs of ribs were exactly what they appeared to be--and fros, not humans--but the soup and the frozen dinners contained my very prized stash of about three months’ worth of brains

Yes, huel, and I’ll be your zombie today

Chapter 2

"I know I’m the one with the so-called iron sto"

I was under the floor with , just far enough to where I could barely peer around the corner where another tunnel intersected the one I was in There was a corpse in the tunnel on the left I couldn’t see a whole lot, but I could definitely sh the protective rit and dust So could everyone else

"Flashlight?" I asked, reaching my hand blindly behind ht only confirmed what my nose had tried to tell me He was about ten feet down--bloated up and co that the tunnel was barely two feet across at best, I had to wonder what could have possessed hih this narrow space One ared tight by his side A pool of reddish purge fluid extended several inches along the shaft--a disgusting reddish brown discharge froht of histhe side of the shaft He’d done his damnedest to claw his way out or shift position Did he suffocate or did he die of thirst? God, I hoped it was the first

I worked as a van driver and ue assistant for the St Edwards Parish Sheriff’s Office which meant I’d seen plenty of death Most of the tihtforward--someone would die in their hoator and I would co, and then I would get the body into a body bag and bring it to thethe autopsy It was nasty, s