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The Urban Dead (short story)

Posted on 13. May, 2010 by Bran Rainey.

All the people wandering the streets, getting hit by the occasional vehicle as it drives through at top speed… these are the monsters. These are zombies. I shiver again, and it has nothing to do with the cold. The city is infested.

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