Caterpillar

By: Travis J I Corcoran

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A zombie apocalypse is bad enough if you're far out in the country - but what happens when you're trapped in a two story brick building in the dense suburbs of Boston, and the streets around you are a sea of biters? Most people would give up and accept their fate...but Chris, Todd, Stacy and David aren't most people. They've got unique skills ... but also unique handicaps. Todd is the building's maintenance guy who can weld, cut, and build ... but he's also fighting a losing battle with the bottle. Chris is a hacker, who can scrape data from the web before the internet crashes for the last time ... but he's also a lot heavier than he should be, and he knows more about cosplay than the real world. Stacy is a secretary who can run fast, but she's finding it hard to accept the new reality. David, the CPA, is fit enough to fight zombies, but he's a coward. Given their flaws, it's doubtful they can survive. ...but there's one more part to the puzzle. In the first floor garage, there's a 30 year old, rusted, poorly maintained bulldozer. The brick walls may keep the zombies out - for now - but the sky overhead is turning orange, and there's smoke in the air. Watertown is burning, and the wind is blowing this way. Can Todd, Chris, Stacy, and come together to MacGyver a solution, even though they're got no armor plate, are short on fuel, and are almost out of MIG welding wire? They'd better hope so, because they're about to be forced to leave their cocoon. Note: This story was originally published in the collection 'Places Beyond the Wild: A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Anthology', and was set in the world created by Daniel Humphreys. It is republished here outside of that world, in a distinct setting.

Corcoran doesn't miss!

My only problem is that this short story ends. I'm absolutely invested in the journey of the characters.

Good but could be better

The story was very interesting But there were way to many curse words and the story just cuts off in a random place and the Ai voice was not great but over all it was good