We are clear cutting a dirt road/path down to the water front. We’ll need to yank up some large rocks in the woods to make it clean and smooth, but the path is a necessity. We are building a tower that overlooks the lake so we have less of a blind spot there, and we need a path/road to get to the tower easily. In addition, there is a lot of acreage that is going to be converted before long to farmland, and we might as well start clearing some of it now. I’m thinking there will be enough wood to build the tower at the end of the road by the time we clear the way. Of course, we need a few days for that wood to cure, so giving us a respite from building is a good thing.
Another problem that will crop up we are now kind of fucked over is the fact that we are not using pressure treated lumber. These towers won’t last for shit without stain or paint, and now it’s too cold to paint. It won’t dry, it’ll just fucking freeze.
Soooo… in our infinite wisdom we may have built towers that are predestined to just fall over in the spring. If they last until then, we’ll be stoked, and we’ll do something to make the wood last a hell of a lot longer. Worst case scenario we will rebuild them with salvaged phone poles, which last forever. They are toxic as fuck to handle though, and I’m sure we’ll be sacrificing some kind of long-term health to do that.
Breaking eggs to make omelets and such.
Not much else. Undead traffic at campus has been nil, and that’s nice. Since we took our guest into custody there have been no zombies at strange points on the wall, and there have been no accounts of missing food, or strange phantoms on the video feeds.
All seems to have settled. Famous last words…
Oh, and I forgot. In the cabin on the dead bodies as well as on the tables the guys found some personal information. The parents were Aaron and Charlene Shorey, and the girl we currently have in Hall C, periodically trying to bite everyone that comes near her is named Sylvia.
Now if we can just get her to remember her name, and act like the girl she was before the world took her parents from her…
I think I’m going to saddle up for some outside the wall runs. I need the adrenaline rush, and I need to shake the case of the pussies I’ve come down with. The only reason we aren’t talking about a dead girl is because I didn’t have the balls to pull the trigger when I had her dead-to-rights. I guess sometimes I’m lucky. On a normal night, that kid would’ve been stitched head to toe with 5.56 and I’d be drinking myself into oblivion trying to stop hating myself for having done it.
I’ve got a strange kind of luck.
-Adrian
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CHRIS PHILBROOK is the creator and author of Adrian’s Undead Diary as well as the fantasy series Elmoryn and Tesser: A Dragon Among Us.
Chris calls the wonderful state of New Hampshire his home. He is an avid reader, writer, role player, miniatures game player, video game player, and part time athlete, as well as a member of the Horror Writers Association. If you weren't impressed enough, he also works full time while writing for Elmoryn as well as the world of Adrian’s Undead Diary and his newest project, Tesser; A Dragon Among Us.
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Table of Contents
A.L.P.A. map
Auburn Lake Vicinity map
SEPTEMBER 2011
September 2 nd
September 5 th
September 8 th
September 10 th
September 13 th
September 15 th
September 16 th
White Blood Cell
September 19 th
September 21 st
September 23 rd
September 24 th
The Factory
September 27 th
September 28 th
OCTOBER 2011
October 1 st
October 7 th
October 9 th
October 11 th
October 14 th
October 16 th
October 19 th
October 21 st
October 23 rd
Dreams of a Dying Man
October 26 th
October 28 th
October 31 st
NOVEMBER 2011
November 3 rd
November 6 th
November 8 th
November 10 th
November 13 th
November 16 th
The Road To Bastion
November 19 th
November 20 th
November 22 nd
November 27 th
November 28 th
DECEMBER 2011
December 1 st
December 3 rd
December 5 th
December 7 th
December 10 th
December 15 th
December 16 th
December 18 th
A Stranger Among Us
December 19 th
December 22 nd
About the Author
Additional Online Content
AUD Merchandise
Free Short Fiction by Chris Philbrook