After the Christmas apocalypse, day six: Dear diary. As our eyes adjusted to the dark, we realised to our horror that we were not alone in the stable. We heard movement; a shuffle from the rafters, a shifting in the corners, a scraping on the floors. Joe opened a window shutter just a crack, allowing the moonlight to spill into the barn. Before us was a menagerie of animals; an ox, an ass, a camel, goats, cows and chickens. Curiously, no horses, which I thought perhaps rather defeated the point of the stable entirely, but there were more pressing matters at hand, such as the voracious dead outside the door. We would have to wait until morning to fully assess the situation, but for now, these animals seemed of no harm to us. We made what bedding we could from straw, and huddled together for warmth. It seemed to us best to sleep now, and collect supplies in the morning. Perhaps the sunlight would drive the wretches indoors. We were just dozing off when suddenly, we were brought back to our senses by the most dazzling of white lights; a vivid blaze of silver glaring through the crack in the window. Whatever is that? asked Mary, and I ran to take a look. I poked my head cautiously from the window and looked up. To my astonishment, directly above us was an enormous beacon of light! It sent a solid shaft of light blaring down directly onto the barn in which we hid. Whatever in the world could it be!? It was pointed, like a star, and yet had appeared as if from nowhere. Whatever it was, it would draw the dead right to us! Perhaps this was the source of the zombie scourge - perhaps it was alien involvement, some apocalyptic plague unleashed upon humanity to end us once and for all, and now they had sought out us, the last survivors of men, to finish the job. I could only speculate, but it was impossible to tell clearly - it was either that, or something as preposterous as a star from the sky had fallen from the heavens to linger above us. Quickly, I closed the shutters across the window. There was nothing for it now, if we left, we would be instantly illuminated and consuminated. We would simply have to wait for the morning and hope for the best.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:57:25 +0000
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