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    British Zombie Breakout: Part One
    British Zombie Breakout: Part One
    British Zombie Breakout: Part One
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    British Zombie Breakout: Part One

    By Peter Salisbury

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    Part One. The authorities should have been more careful after the first zombie breakout infected half of England and disrupted lives right across the country. Unfortunately, either someone got careless, again, or the disease was far more virulent than anyone expected. The remote fishing village of Kilkorne with its picturesque castle and harbour was the last place to expect an attack, despite its proximity to the experimental facility where the disease was invented. Once the second outbreak had been officially announced by the Ministry, anyone resisting capture was to be shot as being infected with zombieism. Alternatively you could surrender and be kept in a quarantine camp, where last time the survival rate was zero.

    Refusing to accept either option, five teenagers and five adults separately begin journeys from opposite sides of the village. They attempt to stay one step ahead of an insane horde of highly infectious, half dead creatures, the army's orders to shoot on sight, and the Ministry's instructions to burn down the village. Furthermore, the endeavour was not exactly helped by a suspected case of haunting.

    Short story 14,500 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Salisbury
    Release dateOct 6, 2011
    ISBN9781465721440
    British Zombie Breakout: Part One
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    Peter Salisbury

    I am a life-long fan of science fiction, and so when I had an idea for my first story, I wasn't surprised that it was in that genre. The first book took me ten years to complete, but I've got a little quicker since. I am pleased to say that I now have over thirty books published in my name. What next? So far I haven't run short of ideas for new stories, so there are several projects in various stages of completion, and I hope to be publishing the next story before too long, so please subscribe to my alerts. My profile picture is a portrait of the author as a young man, painted by my daughter Charlotte Salisbury who has also contributed to several of my book covers. Professional background In the 1970s I studied Chemistry at university and then spent over thirty years in classrooms across England teaching almost anything but Chemistry, including Photography, Communications Skills, General Science, Computing, and Information and Communications Technology. In the 1990s I spent ten years writing abstracts of chemical patents. This was a most exacting process but very rewarding to be reading about the very latest inventions in the field, and the abstracts were distributed world-wide to research scientists by subscription. Articles of mine have been published in magazines and I have written assignments used for assessing Communications Skills for a major international Examination Board. After retiring early this century I began writing in earnest.

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      British Zombie Breakout - Peter Salisbury

      British Zombie Breakout

      Copyright Peter Salisbury October 2011

      Cover painting by Daphne Coleridge

      Smashwords Edition

      License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. The contents must not be copied and distributed or re-distributed by means of printed paper, electronic transfer or by any on-line means, without the express permission of the author.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This story is entirely fictional and any resemblance to any person or place is entirely unintentional and coincidental.

      British Zombie Breakout

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: At The Harbour

      Chapter 2: One Word

      Chapter 3: Drawbridge

      Chapter 4: Fishbone Alley

      Chapter 5: Haunted

      Chapter 6: Weapons

      Chapter 7: Dungeon

      Chapter 8: Ghost

      Chapter 9: Let Me Out

      Chapter 10: In the Thicket

      Chapter 11: A Mother's Pride

      Chapter 12: Maisie's Triumph

      Chapter 13: A Smell of Burning

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      Chapter 1: At The Harbour

      Sarah's head shot up from where she leaned at her computer screen. 'Is that the siren?' she said. 'Karen, open the window.'

      Karen was nearest the triple glazed, energy-saving windows. She swung the catch and pushed, to be rewarded with the grinding wail of the klaxon on the school clock tower.

      Sarah walked to the window and looked out at the harbour. There was blue sky all the way to the horizon.

      'Floods in this weather…?' she said.

      'That or…' Karen ran to the multiband radio in the corner. A clenched fist pressed to her mouth, she used her other hand to fumble with the presets until she got speech.

      '…ombies broke out last night from the secure facility seven miles from Kilkorne,' the announcer intoned in a solemn voice. 'The public is instructed to avoid…'

      'No!' Sarah shrieked. 'Not again!'

      '… contact with zombies. A Ministry spokesperson said today that a significant military presence…'

      Sarah flew across the room and rapped on the glass partition which divided the shipping office into two sections. Janet Raymond turned and waved Sarah to open the door. With the radio bulletin continuing in the background and the siren audible in the distance, Sarah got as far as opening her mouth before Janet, the harbourmaster, spoke.

      'Zombies?'

      Sarah nodded and turned back to grab her coat and handbag. Karen was already by the door to the stairwell, holding it open for the other two women.

      As the three clattered down the wooden stairs, Karen said, 'The fishing boats are all out, that just leaves Mercator, Cornish Imp and the sailing dinghies.'

      'We should have called the coastguard,' Janet said, stopping on the bottom step.

      'They'll know, they've got even more radios than we have.'

      'OK, let's see if we can start Cornish Imp's engine. I bet Jack's gone off with the key.'

      'Well, it is his boat.'

      The three women burst out the front door of the harbourmaster's office and ran beside bright blue railings which edged the concrete strip of the quay. To their left was the harbour and the sea, to their right a picturesque fishing village that was in the process of descent into mayhem. Halfway along the quay, they heard a shout from behind. Two men were running towards them.

      The women huddled in fear together for a moment. Then recognition broke over one of their faces.

      'It's my Bill,' Karen said. 'Looks like he's got Graham with him, too.'

      'Thank goodness,' Sarah said, waving as if her life depended on it.

      'Where are you going?' Graham said, leaning on the railings to catch his breath.

      'Get a boat and sail out the harbour, of course,' Janet said.

      'Fleet's out, they're no help.'

      'We know that, Bill. And the wives caught the early bus to work in Buntinton.'

      'The fewer people left in the village the better.'

      'Quite, but right now there's just us,' Janet said. 'We need to get a boat ready to go for when the children arrive.'

      'Mercator, it's the biggest of what's left,' Graham said.

      'Electrical fault,' Bill said. 'Won't start.'

      'What?'

      'It's got an electrical fault. They're coming to fix it tomorrow.'

      'Cornish Imp, then,' Graham said, taking his wife's arm and leading her further down the quay, past the incessant slap, slap, slap of the dinghies' rigging against their jostling masts, to where the long cabin of Cornish Imp rose in white with

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