Girl in the City
There’s an evil woman cackling just under my window. Yes I live in the city and my soul should be eternally damned for such travesty. The cackling has been going on for almost two hours now. I am visualising her gleefully conjuring or brewing a pot of cane toads’ legs, blood of a two headed bat and some poor bloke’s chest hairs. But alas I know that she is only down at the restaurant having a good gabba with some mates. Well, I should consider myself lucky it’s only Thursday and 9pm. Hopefully her coven should be gone by sun up.. well hopefully.Why do I say lucky? Because it is not the weekend... yet.. Fridays and Saturdays brings other dark entities out into the night and spills out of the street of my beloved city. The most common variety are the zombies which is divided into two sub zombie group. First are the reavers I call them. This group is fast (ala 28 days later), mindless and loud. They come like a horde of darkness , screaming, blood red eyes, looting, kicking garbage bins, beating each other to a pulp for that last piece of human, littering the streets with drool, urine and funnily enough excretions high in alcohol content (yes the humans in pristine white coats have collected samples back in the days). The reavers’ periodic exit out of their lair is from 11pm onwards. After that, anyone is fair game I say. Although it starts earlier on Friday nights (around 6pm). So be warned.
The second sub group is what I call the dredge.. This is the original resident evil type zombies. Slowish, with eyes dulled and dimmed, hair matted .... Still hungry for human flesh –just slower and dumber. They come about the streets from the pits of hell, tottering on some stilts (must be a form of hellish punishment from a bad deed done when living), some barely able to walk on it, others carry it around whilst their feet are bloodied by the pavement, unnoticed however. They groan, drool, puke.. But they keep going on a direction, only they know... their once heavily made up faces melting, nails broken.. They trod on even until sun up. So even the daytime can still be a danger to one’s health (if you’re a human anyway).
Its 1030pm now.. The cackles have since evaporated into the wintery chill. Just another week night in the city. Goodnight ya’ll.
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