Copyright Beth Carter
“Ready?,” Damon asked, voice trembling with fear.
Zoe squeezed his hand, “Let’s get outa here.”
His face grim, Damon slammed the modified Stutz into gear and floored the accelerator.
Instinctively, they ducked in unison as the car broke past the gates then plowed into the mob of slow-moving corpses. Nauseating fetor assaulted their nostrils as decaying bodies were impaled by the spiked cow catchers and the wheels’ spinning blades.
“We did it!” Damon let out a deafening howl of relief.
His laughter trailed off at the blank expression in Zoe’s eyes.
She opened her mouth then lunged at him.
© 2013 K.Z. Morano
The Eclectic Eccentric 
Oh yuck. I hate zombies! I think I have a too vivid imagination to read stuff like this. Nicely done 🙂
me too. i don’t even watch zombie movies. hate hate hate them >< ick! i think i may be running out of stories, to the point of writing one about them. lol thank you
So I guess Zoe was really zoembie..
ummm LOL (?) hehehe.. *hugs* ^^
🙂
Quite a stretch in imagination here from the prompt to zombies… well done.
thank you 🙂 figured no one would dare ride something like that unless it’s a matter of life and death haha
Haha! Now THAT is NOT my kinda gal!! Their heads ducking in union just made it all work so wonderfully!
whew hard prompt. wanted to write something like a continuation of your house story then ending with Rich being the seller of the automobile (from older stories of other writers) haha ^^ but i chose to go this way instead. thanks ^^
That’s a great story, with such gory description. Of course, if they’re both zombies, can they live happily ever after? Split a brain and watch the sunset. 🙂
hahaha that’d be so romantic… and so gross. lol ^^ thanks
Nothing says good morning like zombies. 🙂 Nice twist at the end, too. My only quibble is that the two words “Malodorous fetor” basically mean the same thing so maybe you could word that slightly differently. Otherwise, well done.
janet
thank you. was worried abt that too but soooo wanted to use them lol 🙂
They do go well together and it’s not really a big deal. They may have just a sliver of different nuances that would let them work.
malodorous was the tricky one. 🙂 settled with nauseating fetor.. that’d make it more yucky 🙂 lol
That works better, although I love malodorous.
hmmn is malodorous stench redundant?
My first thought is no, but they’re still very similar. Different parts of speech, though.
thanks ^^ haha guess i’ll use that. sounds good to me ^^
Maliciously Malodorous Marzipan.
Good one!
thanks 🙂
Poor Zoe. Nice idea on the prompt.
This is terrific! I love your ideas.
“Nauseating fetor assaulted their nostrils as decaying bodies were impaled by the spiked cow catchers and the wheels’ spinning blades.” Most gross–certainly as horrifying as a zombie’s bite. Good job.
That was certainly very different to those I’ve read…
Viva la difference, kz… well done to you… 🙂
Great ending! For such a sweet looking girl, you are sure blood thirsty. And ‘fetor’… nice word choice, kz.
Ahem! Zombies!!! 😀 😀 😀
That’s why, as nice as they are, convertibles just aren’t very useful during a zombiepocalypse. Neither are motorcycles, no matter what we may think we’ve learned from the Walking Dead. 🙂
I love this, especially the action paragraph. It’s very squelchy 🙂
I should write a zombie story soon 🙂
Dear Kz,
I just hate days like that. Dead, smelly bodies everywhere and then the girl turns into a zombie. Damn the luck. Definitely time for a new car and a new girlfriend. Well, that’s if he lives through the experience. Inventive take for sure.
Shalom,
Rochelle
dammit. can’t trust a zombie. ever. well done. “fetor” a new word for me. thanks.
Zoe was the wrong choice to make the run with. She wanted to get him alone so she did not have to share him with the others. Creative KZ.
Always a big fear that my loved one would die, become a zombie, and I not know it!
Scott
Zombies meet MadMax. I like it.
Great little story, kz, I feel sorry for poor Damon, though, he almost made it…
Nice work. I was almost rolling my eyes, thinking that yet another person had used the name Damon (Daemon, Damion) for the secretly bad guy, when BOOM! Poor, innocent Damon gets attacked by his sweet little passenger girl! Super twist!
I’m learning so much about zombies since joining FF! I may even try one of these zombie stories.
I guess anyone who happily inhabit that car might well be a zombie. Nice twist!
Yikes!
corpse and zombies and a car mowing them under to escape… and the last twist.
Dark, dark thoughts! Good job kz! 🙂
dangerous zombie for a girl friend:) well written, kz
Well done, KZ. It’s always good to write about something different to see how it feels even if it’s not your natural choice. It stops us getting in a rut, and it’s good practice. Otherwise I’d be writing zombie stories every week!
Kz your imagination is endless zombies no less – I don’t think you will ever run out of stories!
very nice
Nooooooo!
I love the “spiked cow catchers” — so awesome! And poor, poor Damon.
Lol..There are the Zombies. I knew they’d show up soon.
I loved the phrase ‘nauseating fetor’, some of the most vivid description I’ve ever seen in a story about the undead. Great stuff!
oh no! all that howling for nothing. nom nom…….
so they’re bustin out of a mausoleum ? Vivid description, and Zoe seems all business.
kz, I would not want to rely on this car in the zombie apocalypse. Of course, you might not have any choice in the matter. Well done!
dang zombies…@ least they brought a new word to my world…fetor. 🙂 simply well done!
Oh, Zoe! I love zombies and I loved this story. I think you did an excellent job with detail here for so few words. Good job!
Poor Damon. After all that effort to break free. Great ideas here – really enjoyed it.