The Living Dead

Pete had toiled all of his life to make a living. He had been working
since the age of ten just to put food on the table. Things had always
been hard for Pete, but things had never been this hard. He remembered
the early days of the depression, when new president Barack Obama had
promised change and better days ahead. All of the new president’s new
ideas were not enough, however, and the economy had just continued to
get worse and worse. The modern global economy made this the worst
depression the world had ever seen, as America went down the drain it
took the entire world with it. By 2015, poverty was the norm and Pete
was sick of it. Pete decided that he had worked enough, and now there
was no work anyway. He wanted it to end. He wanted it all to end.
Pete lived near one of the biggest reservoirs in the United States.
Water from this reservoir fed 50% of the remaining population of the
nation. Pete decided to use this reservoir to end all of the world’s
suffering. In a flash he had his plan, he put together a number of what
he thought were different animal poisons. He had decided to take his
own life, and take as many people as possible with him. Pete dumped his
poison into the reservoir, left weakly guarded in these hard times.
Then Pete drank the poison himself.
Pete had expected immediate death. Pete had expected that all the pain
would immediately disappear, instead something unthinkable happened.
Without realizing it Pete had used poisons infected by nuclear waste,
the combination created a disastrous effect. Pete’s skin started to
fall off of his body. He was decaying, but he was still alive! Pete
desperately ran towards the nearby lake and jumped in, trying
desperately to drown himself but he just wouldn’t die. Soon, millions
of people would know the full pain of Pete. The reservoir had already
been infected, and the water was speeding out across the nation
bringing living death to all of America…