Warm Bodies - Chapter 18

step threelivingNora Greene is in the square by the Stadium’s main gate, standing with General Rosso in front of a huge crowd. She is a little nervous. She wishes she had smoked before coming out today, but it seemed inappropriate somehow. She wanted a clear head for this occasion.‘Okay, folks,’ Rosso begins, straining his reedy voice to reach the...

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Warm Bodies - Chapter 17

‘Julie,’ I say, bracing to confess my final sin. ‘I need . . . to tell you . . .’BANG.The Stadium’s field halogens flare like suns and midnight becomes daylight. I can see every pore in Julie’s face.‘What the hell?’ she gasps, whipping her head around. A piercing alarm further shatters the night’s stillness, and then we see it: the Jumbotron is aglow....

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Warm Bodies - Chapter 16

The Orchard, as it turns out, is not part of the Stadium’s farming system. It’s their one and only pub, or at least the closest thing they have to a pub in this new bastion of prohibition. Reaching its entrance requires an arduous vertical journey through the Stadium’s Escheresque cityscape. First, we climb four flights of stairs in a ramshackle housing...

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Warm Bodies - Chapter 14

In my old days of scavenging the city I often gazed up at the Stadium walls and imagined a paradise inside. I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I felt envy and wanted to eat them all the more. But look at this place. The corrugated sheet metal glaring in the sun. The fly-buzzing...

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Warm Bodies - Chapter 15

I am Perry Kelvin, and this is my last day alive.What a strange feeling, waking up to that awareness. All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummelling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright. It was only on the brightest of mornings, those rare days of verve and...

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