Skyline: Chapter One

 Skyline

Chapter 1:

Day 1:

I found myself in the woods. I was running, running from something… I still can’t remember what. It’s been a week now, I’m starting to feel anxious strange, like someone’s waiting just behind a tree, just out of sight. I’ve put together a little shack made out of wood and some metal I hauled from a car wreck on the road up this mountain. I have some food and there were some trunks in the car. Going back tomorrow.

Day 2:

Great find! Load of great crap in that wreck! I found a battery-powered Rangette with solar batteries, a revolver with ten or so rounds, and some assorted canned foods! I couldn’t haul all of it, though. I think I’ll head back up tomorrow and see what else was up there. The feeling’s getting worse, too.

Day 3:

Saw the skeletons. Three of them. Two were fully grown, the other was small. A child. The skull was missing. I’m hearing lots of shuffling. I think I’m going insane. I vomited. I’m never going back up to that wreck, never.

Day 4:

I tried to reach the peak today, I made it about three quarters of the way up or so. Got hungry, I’m going to head back, come prepared next time.

Someone. Someone in the woods. Something in the woods. Sort of swaying, staring at me. Covered in blood, looked like he was drooling it. I’m huddled in the corner with the revolver. Stay away.

Day 5:

I’ve forgotten to mention: virus in the city. Killing by the thousands. I see smoke rising off the skyline. There’s an orchestra of screams coming from it. I assume there’s rioting, looting. Or maybe the sick are on the streets, the hospitals either overstocked booked patiented full or working on skeleton crews. I’m trembling, fighting the tears from falling. But who cares now, anyways? I feel so alone.

Day 6:

I’m not.