The Zombie Chronicles: Outbreak
By Mark Clodi
For programmer Max, beating the Fourth of July traffic was supposed to be the hardest part of his Friday morning at the MAC Corporate building. But routine water-cooler politics dissolve in seconds when screaming coworkers turn into bloodthirsty, flesh-craving monsters roaming the hallways. Armed only with a collectible baseball bat, Max finds himself trapped inside a locked-down office complex alongside an abrasive workplace rival and Jane Stewart, an embattled Denver police officer running out of backup. With the city rapidly collapsing outside, undead executives hunting between the cubicles, and his wife and kids barricaded in the attic miles away, Max must fight through a waking nightmare where every badge swipe could be their last.
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It was the start of another ordinary day at the office for Max, he was emailing a friend when one of his other early morning co-workers called for his help, someone was having a heart attack. Rushing to the aid of his fallen co-worker Max knew one thing, it wasn’t a heart attack. Heart attack victims didn’t bleed and didn’t start chewing on anyone they could catch either. Once the victims died they came back to life with only one goal; to consume the living. Now Max was stuck in a rapidly deteriorating situation thirty miles from home, where his wife and two kids were sleeping away the warm mid summer morning. He had to get back to his family and get them to a safe place, if he could find one. Forming a group made up of his coworkers Steve and Tom and a police officer called ‘Stewart’ they make their way into the city to save the ones they love. The newly returned, however, were not all mindless shamblers and some of them had a plan…