Hey all, I thought I might post this and see what everyone thought. Note that this is horror/sci fi and didn't fit anywhere else.... Also, it's not finished and I don't know where to take it. Crit and suggestions welcome. 
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Chapter 1: Disaster.
I stared at the scene before me. I stared at the blood seeping across the ground towards me. I knew that they would be coming soon but I couldn’t stop looking at what was before me.
My mother lay on the ground. A rusty nail had pierced her neck and she had bled out within seconds. She’d tripped and fallen over, landing on the nail. I never even heard her scream.
But now, now it was too late. They were coming and if I didn’t move soon, I’d be dead too.
I knelt down beside my mum and kissed her check. I couldn’t bury her and I wasn’t sure if they would eat her or not. It was too late anyway and I didn’t have the time to sit around here and say goodbye.
I straightened up when I heard the noise. It was something between howl and a scream, I knew what it was and so did my little brother.
“Is that them?” he whispered clutching my hand.
I turned to look at the little brown haired, blue-eyed boy beside me. He was trying to hide and he wasn’t looking at mum; in fact, he was looking anywhere but at her.
“Yeah,” I said. “It is.” I looked back down the alley and flinched when I heard one of them run into the blockade we’d put up at the far end. “Come on, let’s get out of here.”
My brother nodded and together we snuck off down the alley, trying to keep quiet in case the others heard us. One was enough trouble.
We made it to the end of the alley and I peeked around the corner. The street was empty but I wasn’t going to take it at face value. Just because something looked empty doesn’t mean it is.
I looked down at my little brother. He was holding his teddy bear, Bailey, to his chest like a life line. His eyes were wide and he was rigid, staring off across the street to our left.
“What is it?” I asked. “What do you see?”
He pointed towards an alley across from us. I followed his lead and looked to where he was pointing.
There, at the entrance of the alley was one of them. It was a man, but he was most definitely dead and had been for a while. And yet, even though he was definitely dead, he was walking around and making weird noises like he was still half alive.
I pulled my brother back into our alley and watched the dead man shuffle around in his alley. He didn’t notice us, but I knew he could smell us. Maybe his eyes had been poked out? I didn’t want to stick around and find out.
I slipped out the alley, dragging my brother behind me and snuck off down the street. I checked to see if the gun that dad had given me was still where it should be, in it's holster, and took a look back at the alley. He was standing in the middle of the street now, his back to us.
I fingered the gun but he just took off in the opposite direction to us.
“Jesse,” I whispered and my brother looked up at me. “Let’s go find that safe house, huh?”
Jesse nodded and we raced off down the street. We didn’t run into any of them, and we get lost a lot but eventually we found the damn safe house. And unfortunately for us, it was empty.
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