IDEA - 9-19-2020
by
Patrick Ryan
1,497 Words
The zombie apocalypse has started, but, in the real world, zombies are relatively easy to corral and contain, unlike movies. They're not quick, they're not ultra motivated to eat humans, and they mostly sit around, grunting. They'll bite you if you get close enough, and if you're bit, you'll eventually transform into a zombie. In movies, the world is typically presented as dystopian with dissolved government and commerce. How can the world work with the zombie apocalypse happening right outside the door? Quite easily, in fact. People are still going to work, paying bills, and buying things. Like the non-zombie apocalypse world, everything is politicized; one group campaigns for zombies' humane treatment, and others want them to be rounded up and killed. Elections are won and lost on zombie issues these days. The most dangerous zombies are those that have been bitten and are in the process of transformation. The transformation takes about a month; the closer you get to a complete zombie, the more you have the desire to bite, but you don't show any outward signs. That's what happened to Aiden's mom; when she was shopping at a department store, a woman who looked perfectly fine, jumped her and bit her on her arm. That was last week, and like a responsible person, she went through the process of self-reporting. Without having any overt signs of becoming a zombie, she underwent torturous testing and treatment, electro-shock, chained in her cell, and placed in a large room with real zombies. She was a bit three more times, being in close quarters with so many zombies for an extended period of time. The reality was that they didn't have enough room to cope with the increasing number of zombies; they stopped aging, they were no longer active members of society, and they couldn't die unless you destroyed the brain. They're just taking up space. Eventually, Aiden's mom turned into a full zombie, which was a sad day for him. Aiden was disillusioned, watching his mother go through the change, the treatment she received from the living, and then seeing the circumstances under which she was forced to live as a zombie. Aiden's anger started to bubble up, visiting terrorist zombie sites, and reading anti-zombie literature. The first time Aiden blew up a zombie prison that sealed his fate, he felt as if he was finally making a difference. Aiden would turn up on the most wanted zombie terrorist list, an outlaw; he lived in the background, waiting to kill more zombies, purging the earth of this minor inconvenience.
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