Existing Dead

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Special Thanks!

I want to thank everyone who has helped me on this wild journey. First, I want to thank my good friend Eloise J. Knapp for being supportive and creating the awesome cover. I want to thank Charlotte Emma Gledson for giving my story a read through and catching any mistakes I missed. I also want to thank Kelly Dunn for giving my story another round of editing. A special thanks to Dallas Green, I listened to the Little Hell album about a million times while writing. And a very special thanks to my family who might never read this book. They already think I’m crazy.

For Dallas Green & City and Colour

Thanks for your Little Hell, now here’s mine.

Prologue

At the moment of birth, life begins to die. But when the rules of life change and death is replaced by an existing hell, the world as we know it ends.

It didn’t take the world long to crumble. When the first reports of the dead walking came in, that was it. People began to panic and within an hour of the news broadcast, suicides and murder rates peaked. Some of the population couldn’t handle the thought of their lives suddenly changing. The smart folks listened to the National Guard and gathered supplies to wait it out, while the unintelligent thought they could meet the threat head-on. Many small mobs armed themselves with whatever blunt objects they could find. As the dead quickly overran the living, the would-be heroes soon discovered that destroying a human’s brain, through the skull, is not as easy as it sounds. Those with firearms lasted a bit longer, but not all of them were marksmen. Once ammunition became a problem, they were massacred. Many reanimated while their intestines were being ripped out of their bellies, and others were eaten whole before they had a chance to reopen their eyes.

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