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Dead World: The Complete Series
Dead City | Dead Nation | Dead Planet
Sean Platt
Johnny B.
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Contents
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Dead City
Chapter One - Hell On Earth
Chapter Two - Calais
Chapter Three - Blowback
Chapter Four - Human Containment
Chapter Five - MPs
Chapter Six - Bivouac
Chapter Seven - Hulka
Chapter Eight - Big Fucking Gun
Chapter Nine - Purgatory Valley
Chapter Ten - The Man Who Saved The World
Chapter Eleven - Dead City
Chapter Twelve - To Be Read
Chapter Thirteen - Realities of The Disease
Chapter Fourteen - Deleted Scenes
Chapter Fifteen - Danny
Chapter Sixteen - Jordache
Chapter Seventeen - Secrets
Chapter Eighteen - A Knock At The Door
Chapter Nineteen - Truth And Beauty
Chapter Twenty - Prestige
Chapter Twenty-One - The Late Show
Chapter Twenty-Two - Handlers
Chapter Twenty-Three - Dropped Call
Chapter Twenty-Four - Check-In
Chapter Twenty-Five - Purgatory
Chapter Twenty-Six - Violations
Chapter Twenty-Seven - This Is Where We Leave You
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Redefining Nature
Chapter Twenty-Nine - Public Relations
Chapter Thirty - Extraction
Chapter Thirty-One - Not On The Menu
Chapter Thirty-Two - The Good Life
Chapter Thirty-Three - Paranoia
Chapter Thirty-Four - Malfunctions
Chapter Thirty-Five - Drive-By
Chapter Thirty-Six - Breaking News
Chapter Thirty-Seven - Fail
Chapter Thirty-Eight - Skin District
Chapter Thirty-Nine - Playing Possum
Chapter Forty - Spent Cartridges
Chapter Forty-One - Cold Shoulder
Chapter Forty-Two - Plots And Schemes
Chapter Forty-Three - Dawn
Chapter Forty-Four - Funlanes
Chapter Forty-Five - Not Ever
Chapter Forty-Six - Orange Julius
Chapter Forty-Seven - Three Tall Cloaks
Chapter Forty-Eight - Denied
Chapter Forty-Nine - Whistle And Thump
Chapter Fifty - 21:46
Chapter Fifty-One - Voices
Chapter Fifty-Two - Suds
Chapter Fifty-Three - News
Chapter Fifty-Four - The Moon
Chapter Fifty-Five - A-List
Chapter Fifty-Six - Weasel
Chapter Fifty-Seven - Through The Dark Window
Chapter Fifty-Eight - Mechanisms Of Disease
Chapter Fifty-Nine - Knock Knock
Chapter Sixty - Visiting Hours
Chapter Sixty-One - :)
Chapter Sixty-Two - Bacon
Chapter Sixty-Three - Coffee
Chapter Sixty-Four - Five Minutes
Chapter Sixty-Five - Kojak
Chapter Sixty-Six - Mail Call
Chapter Sixty-Seven - Just Another Day On The Job
Chapter Sixty-Eight - Blocked
Chapter Sixty-Nine - Clarion Call
Chapter Seventy - Rockwell Portrait
Chapter Seventy-One - Chrysalis
Chapter Seventy-Two - Human Weapons
Chapter Seventy-Three - Intuition
Chapter Seventy-Four - Script
Chapter Seventy-Five - Watch Him With This
Chapter Seventy-Six - Bird's-Eye View
Chapter Seventy-Seven - Decay
Chapter Seventy-Eight - Right This Way
Chapter Seventy-Nine - Upgrades
Chapter Eighty - Evolution
Chapter Eighty-One - Do You Love Me?
SHIT-FROM-BRAINS
The story continues…
Dead Nation
Chapter One - Something New
Chapter Two - Rocket
Chapter Three - TP
Chapter Four - Hitching
Chapter Five - Rendezvous
Chapter Six - You Know Me, Alice
Chapter Seven - Buck
Chapter Eight - Threesome
Chapter Nine - Patterns
Chapter Ten - Wild
Chapter Eleven - National News
Chapter Twelve - Unrest
Chapter Thirteen - Hell of a Coincidence
Chapter Fourteen - Kill ‘Em All
Chapter Fifteen - Predator and Predator
Chapter Sixteen - Southeast Toward Dallas
Chapter Seventeen - Khruschev
Chapter Eighteen - Itch
Chapter Nineteen - Plan C
Chapter Twenty - Zone of Inhibition
Chapter Twenty-One - Thinthum
Chapter Twenty-Two - Wet Confetti
Chapter Twenty-Three - Sharp Dressed Man
Chapter Twenty-Four - V-11
Chapter Twenty-Five - Threads in a Web
Chapter Twenty-Six - Nothing Unexpected Happens Here
Chapter Twenty-Seven - Underground
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Fog of War
Chapter Twenty-Nine - Dun Know
Chapter Thirty - Like Spies
Chapter Thirty-One - Helter Skelter
Chapter Thirty-Two - Sam and Amy
Chapter Thirty-Three - No Leads, Nowhere to Begin
Chapter Thirty-Three - Indisposed
Chapter Thirty-Four - Gone, Gone, and Gone
Chapter Thirty-Five - Already Begun
Chapter Thirty-Six - Not Dead Yet
Chapter Thirty-Seven - The Newest Ones
Chapter Thirty-Eight - March
Chapter Thirty-Nine - Do Not Engage
Chapter Forty - Danny. Danny. Danny.
Chapter Forty-One - Burn It
Chapter Forty-Two - Phase Two
Chapter Forty-Three - Itching to Hybridize
Chapter Forty-Four - A Definitive Win
Chapter Forty-Five - Work
Chapter Forty-Six - Melee
Chapter Forty-Seven - Go Home
Chapter Forty-Eight - Obvious Misdirection
Chapter Forty-Nine - Bitch, Bitch, Bitch
Chapter Fifty - A Voice in the Dark
Chapter Fifty-One - A New Mecca
Chapter Fifty-One - Nakatomi
Chapter Fifty-Two - Fire and Iron
Chapter Fifty-Three - Change
Chapter Fifty-Four - Bakersfield
Chapter Fifty-Five - Push
Chapter Fifty-Six - Guns and Ships
Chapter Fifty-Seven - Safe Travels
Chapter Fifty-Eight - Maps and Bottled Water
Dead Planet
Prologue
100 Days Later
Chapter 1 - Roaches
Chapter 2 - Free Will
Chapter 3 - Fire in the Sky
Chapter 4 - Six Months and Counting
Chapter 5 - Lost Boys
Chapter 6 - Lockdown
Chapter 7 - Alive
Chapter 8 - One Missing Thing
Chapter 9 - Lemonade
Chapter 10 - Thieves in the Night
Chapter 11 - True
Chapter 12 - Last Train East
Chapter 13 - Target
Chapter 14 - Hackensack
Chapter 15 - Impressions on the Wind
Chapter 16 - Children of the Corn
Chapter 17 - Valley Three
Chapter 18 - Gaslight
Chapter 19 - Just Listen
Chapter 20 - Cut the Cord
Chapter 21 - Go
Chapter 22 - Terraforming
Chapter 23 - Nature's Experiments
Chapter 24 - Currency
Chapter 25 - My Way
Chapter 26 - A Thousand Possibilities
Chapter 27 - Random After All
Chapter 28 - A Fated Role
Chapter 29 - Back Down to Earth
Chapter 30 - Fifteen Minutes
Chapter 31 - Rumors
Chapter 32 - Alive More Than Dead
Chapter 33 - Two Reasons
Chapter 34 - The Only Thing to Do
Chapter 35 - Too Far Gone
Chapter 36 - East of Here
Chapter 37 - Something in the Basement
Chapter 38 - No Bullshit
Chapter 39 - Now What?
Chapter 40 - The Watchers
Chapter 41 - Cuffs and Gloves
Chapter 42 - Push
Chapter 43 - All by His Lonesome
Chapter 44 - Patient Zero
Chapter 45 - Deacon
Chapter 46 - Anything But
Chapter 47 - Increasing Volatility
Chapter 48 - Ticking Clock
Chapter 49 - The Cure
Chapter 50 - Für Elise
Chapter 51 - Alone
Chapter 52 - Underestimated
Chapter 53 - Biological Broadcast Array
Chapter 54 - A Pair of Advantages
Chapter 55 - The Whole New Way
Chapter 56 - No Time to Gloat
Chapter 57 - Butterflies in Their Cocoons
Chapter 58 - Capacitor Power
Chapter 59 - Chrysalis
Chapter 60 - Nail in the Coffin
Chapter 61 - Do You See?
Chapter 62 - Living for Today
Chapter 63 - Something Deliberate
Chapter 64 - No Answers
Chapter 65 - Much Less Expected
Chapter 66 - The Key
Chapter 67 - Keep Moving
Chapter 68 - Finish It
Chapter 69 - Birds
Chapter 70 - Consent to Destroy
Chapter 71 - Microphone and Speaker
Chapter 72 - All of You
Chapter 73 - No Words
Chapter 74 - Void
Chapter 75 - A Crisis of Conscience
Chapter 76 - Seeing in the Way He Meant Hearing
Chapter 77 - Building With Blocks
Chapter 78 - Too Unreal For Reality
Chapter 79 - Like Balls in a Hopper
Chapter 80 - A Horrible, Horrible Mistake
Chapter 81 - Together
Chapter 82 - Arrête! Arrête! Annul!
Chapter 83 - Brothers Forever
Chapter 84 - Exit
Chapter 85 - Two Years Later
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Chapter One - Hell On Earth
THE HELICOPTER RIDE WAS BUMPY enough to make Alice spill her coffee, but not her lunch. The way the pilot was acting, this particular ride was no big deal, and if she threw up now, Alice could forget about keeping anyone’s respect. She was already a woman heading into what had (of course) become a male-dominated sector of the government, society, and even the specific geographic area. If she tossed her cookies on the chopper floor, no one would take her seriously — not the pilot, not the on-site leadership at Yosemite, not Bobby Baltimore, who’d met her before. Even the undead might laugh and point, such as they were still able.
“This your first time to Hell on Earth?” the pilot asked, projecting his voice above the thumping rotor. The helicopter’s side door was open, maybe for breeze, and the idea of plummeting to her death made Alice uneasy. She couldn’t help glancing at the ’copter’s gaping mouth before turning back to the pilot.
“Officially, I’m supposed to pretend you didn’t say that.” Then, when the pilot seemed unwilling to fix his politically incorrect faux pas, she answered his question. “I’ve talked to Bobby in Aberdeen Valley. But this is my first time to Yosemite.”
“Pfft. Then you’re in for a treat. How many ferals they run across out there in Dead City?”
“It happens in the sticks, not in the city. But I’ve never seen one in person.”
“The idea of being here freak you out?”
“I visited some scary places before the borders were closed. It takes a lot to freak me out.”
“You’ve been abroad?” The pilot seemed impressed. Alice, for her part, was amazed that he could fly without looking forward all that often, even though his inattention made her nervous. Yosemite’s wide expanse yawned ahead — all granite and trees. She’d asked for a flyover of the park section before entering the contained zone but now felt too ill for proper appreciation. The duty sergeant’s response had been acceptable but not conciliatory. Her request had been granted, but Alice had the distinct impression it was only because what the military said went around here, and she’d happened to request the same approach route air traffic always entered the restricted northern section — reporters’ preferences notwithstanding.
“When I was younger,” she said.
The pilot turned fully in his seat, one arm slung conversationally over the back. He was chewing gum and wearing a flight helmet. He looked maybe twenty years old. Nearly young enough to be her kid, if Alice ever had any.
“You don’t say? Tell the truth, Ms. Frank. What was worse? Baghdad in the middle of the conflicts, or this?”
Alice watched the park crawl beneath the ’copter, the first bits of Yosemite vanishing at the windshield’s bottom from her vantage in back. Soon, if she scooted toward the open door, she’d be able to see the open park below. If she fell after that, a parachute wasn’t likely to save her. The hunters did fine in Yosemite, but an unarmed woman plunked among the nation’s oldest ferals wouldn’t last long. She might as well be wearing meat-flavored perfume.