Diary Entry: Ruby Li

Excerpt from a diary found in the Shrewsbury area, cover idenfies author as "Ruby Li"

Eve and I joked about when something like this would happen. I would always read the Zombie survival guide, and preparing myself for the end of the world. She always said she'd be the first to die, hopeless in those sorts of situations. After all it was all only joke. Wasn't it?

For a while after the big one was first broadcasted life carried on as normal. Eve and I carried on working, shops were still open, if a little quieter. I started to collect things then...getting extra tinned food, big bottles of water, first aid kits. Before anyone believed the story. Eve thought I was going mad, and would laugh at me. I'd laugh with her, and just say we can never be too careful. She carried on working, although most places had closed and the streets were quiet. I got suspicious then. She said the government would protect us.

The government had told us not to worry, they had found a cure, and if anyone was ill to go to the health clinics situated at the community halls. And I had started to believe them.

Until Eve fell ill. I can still remember that day.

I had taken her to those supposed "health clinics". The screaming from the other patients was unbearable. The room wall to wall in blood, and patients crammed into any space possible some dead, some alive. The smell of vomit and rotting meat had filled my nostrils, and when I think about it, the smell still bothers me. I remember there were these Men in white suits walking around me with guns in their hands,and pulled me away from Eve, and taking me to a separate room. They took away my dignity, washed me down and checked if I was also infected. Then they threw me a white mask, and a fresh pair of clothes.

I remember the look on Eve's face wen they returned. A look of peace and calm. Angelic. Apart from one single bloody hole placed into her forehead, the already blood stained pillow soaking up the fresh blood pouring from her head. This was the governments idea of getting rid of the virus. I remember being told there was nothing they could do, and this was the only way of dealing with the virus. I was ushered out, back into the streets, as if nothing had happened.

After returning home, I checked the supplies, bought them up to the loft along with Eve's pet hamster. I wanted to shut the world away. We were going to get married. We were going to adopt. Why did they take her and not me as well? I miss her so much.

They thought they could contain the virus...We believed them. Little did we know they were building a new world....A White Zone. Leaving the rest of us to suffer.

All I can do is sit and listen to the low frequency of the radio hoping to hear a voice...any voice....Any survivors?