A cigarette hung out of his mouth as he smiled.
He remembered a funny fact about these.
"In England, these are sometimes called fags. So, I have a fag hanging out of my mouth." He spoke the words softly, mumbling to himself, looking through a 4x magnified scope. The target had a bit of brain hanging out, a few strands of hair sticking to it. Dried blood ran down his jaded blue eyes- or rather, eye. One was missing, and the socket had maggots crawling in and out. His mouth was nothing more than jagged teeth, stained with blood. His lips had receded into his face. Eating, decaying, slowly, slowly. He was tired of this guy, he had "lived" too long for the man with the rifle.
His smile grew a bit wider at the petty joke as he took the shot.
Bang. Or was it zoot? The rifle was silenced, anyway.
The zombie fell with one shot, the gray, green, red, all exploding violently, a flash of scrambled flesh, fragmented bone, grey matter. A little eye here and there.
With one last weak groan, he fell to the floor.
The explosion of "organic" matter was flung unceremoniously on the wall. "Like modern art." He laughed a bit at the crack.
He took his rifle down from the firing position. On reflection, he somewhat regretted it. With only 29 bullets left for his gun, he couldn't keep wasting them on trivial matters. There were still 300,000 to deal with!
Slinging the rifle over his shoulder, the man tossed out his cigarette from the nearest window. "Again!" The left side of his brain cried. "You'll fall into madness if you don't have some fun!" Right side disagreed. "Left will forsake you for moments of fun. Save your ammo, or you'll perish- and I won't be the main course when they pig out on you!" To be fair, the man reasoned, he would have to raid something for supplies soon. Right side won the battle for now.
As he walked down the steps, his mind started to wander off. "What was my name again?" It was always what it had been, Calvin C. Johnson. But, he really didn't care for identity now. He could be the last human on Earth, why bother with names? "Where am I?" Flagstaff. Arizona. His hometown. The place where he was born, and 300,000 men, women, children died, and then rose again. The history of the place... well, that was a more complicated matter...
Since I'm back I've decided to make a character! Like, an actual, pliable, character!
A cigarette hung out of his mouth as he smiled.
He remembered a funny fact about these.
"In England, these are sometimes called fags. So, I have a fag hanging out of my mouth." He spoke the words softly, mumbling to himself, looking through a 4x magnified scope. The target had a bit of brain hanging out, a few strands of hair sticking to it. Dried blood ran down his jaded blue eyes- or rather, eye. One was missing, and the socket had maggots crawling in and out. His mouth was nothing more than jagged teeth, stained with blood. His lips had receded into his face. Eating, decaying, slowly, slowly. He was tired of this guy, he had "lived" too long for the man with the rifle.
His smile grew a bit wider at the petty joke as he took the shot.
Bang. Or was it zoot? The rifle was silenced, anyway.
The zombie fell with one shot, the gray, green, red, all exploding violently, a flash of scrambled flesh, fragmented bone, grey matter. A little eye here and there.
With one last weak groan, he fell to the floor.
The explosion of "organic" matter was flung unceremoniously on the wall. "Like modern art." He laughed a bit at the crack.
He took his rifle down from the firing position. On reflection, he somewhat regretted it. With only 29 bullets left for his gun, he couldn't keep wasting them on trivial matters. There were still 300,000 to deal with!
Slinging the rifle over his shoulder, the man tossed out his cigarette from the nearest window. "Again!" The left side of his brain cried. "You'll fall into madness if you don't have some fun!" Right side disagreed. "Left will forsake you for moments of fun. Save your ammo, or you'll perish- and I won't be the main course when they pig out on you!" To be fair, the man reasoned, he would have to raid something for supplies soon. Right side won the battle for now.
As he walked down the steps, his mind started to wander off. "What was my name again?" It was always what it had been, Calvin C. Johnson. But, he really didn't care for identity now. He could be the last human on Earth, why bother with names? "Where am I?" Flagstaff. Arizona. His hometown. The place where he was born, and 300,000 men, women, children died, and then rose again. The history of the place... well, that was a more complicated matter...
Since I'm back I've decided to make a character! Like, an actual, pliable, character!
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