Short Story - Hope in Mistville

Mistville was a townsfolksfolk that rested right in the nitty-gritty of straightwayhere. It didnt have a large store chain, or fancy hotels, just trio gas stations with pocket-sized convenience stores only genius of which had been o draw up 24 hours. in that respect were devil schools, one for kindergarten by fifth and a middle school for sixth done eighth. High schoolers rode a omnibus to the nearest town over thirty miles away. Everyone k brisk each new(prenominal) and secrets were never kept profound long with a state of 1,623.\nWhen the Zombie nightmare began the mint in that respect had actu completelyy been alright, at least until the asidesiders with guns, that werent for hunting, had come take destruction with them. Dominance for the town had been wild in what was now al filly a brutal world. People died, the population plummeted, Zombies were fought wrap up and out of town. Families were ripped apart from it all, just now as with all tragedies there was some light, some hope, the battle eventually stopped and people, some(prenominal) the towns natives and the outsiders, began to get along, creating a new version of the town that all helped keep safe from the original enemies. Zombies.\nClaire smiled as she put her pen down and closed the notebook computer shed been writing in. She thought her smaller project was coming along nicely, a history of the town. Something that everyone could read and know that though it had been shitty for a while it was acquiring better. Her mind raced with scenarios of what to add to the book, grinning she picked her pen back up and set to work.\nAs was pointed out earlier families were pulled apart, some by death while others were given(p) a fate worsened than death. Mistville no longer had a population of over 1,600 kind of it was down to a myopic over 900. Families that had the normal two parents and a couple kids were finished and something new took its place. Take the pusher family for instance, it once had a mom, a dad, three children and a dog. by and by all the deaths the family no longe...