Darker Days

It began just like any other day. It seems so insignificant now, but I think it was a Wednesday. I was out at the train switching yard doing some photography work. I worked for the states largest newspaper as a photojournalist. I was happy in my job but unfortunately it didn’t pay much so I often took small side jobs, usually doing favors for different friends doing photo work for weddings or graduation parties, but today I had the rare pleasure of working with Angela. I had known Angela for a few weeks now, she was the chief editor’s secretary and we had become quite well acquainted. One night over the course of a few drinks I brought up the idea of taking some shots of her. Angela was beautiful, long flowing red hair that went all the way down to the top of a beautiful round ass. Her legs seemed to go on for days and she had eyes that seemed to look into my very soul. Just looking at her made my stomach flutter. At first she seemed a little apprehensive but after a few glasses of wine she revealed that it was always a dream of hers to become a model but she couldn’t afford professional head shots. It only took me a little while to convince her and we made a date for the next evening after work. I thought she would look very good in an industrial setting and I spent most of the day at work trying to find a spot where we could do some work. I was on my way to take some shots of the parade downtown when I came across it the train yard. I couldn’t believe my luck. After work me and angie went to her house to pick up some clothes for her to wear and we set off to the yard.

“What should I wear first?” she asked

“I’m not sure” I replied. “what do you think you should wear?”

she didn’t say anything but smiled coquettishly as she walked into the abandoned train car we had set aside for her to change in. as I sat there fantasizing about the visual delights I was about to indulge in I heard a strange noise that sounded like thunder.

“what was that?” angela called from inside the train car.

“I don’t know, it was probably just some workers switching around the train cars, their awfully noisy.” I retorted “are you almost done, it’ll be dark in about an hour”

“hold your horses” she called “it’ll be worth the wait, I promise”

as I sat there wondering what I was in store for the door to the abandoned car slid open and I almost dropped my camera. There standing in front of me was angela wearing thigh high leather boots, black garters, a red corset, and a long fur coat.

“what do you think?” she asked slyly as she posed in the sliding door frame.

“uhh” I stammered “you’re beautiful”

after that I didn’t waste any time and got right to snapping off shots. She was a natural and started posing for the camera. Time seemed to fly by as I was shooting the crimson goddess and before I knew it I was running low on battery power.


“I think we should call it a night” I said

“aww, do we have to?” she moaned

“alright, alright, just let me go change my battery” I said

I left angela alone in the yard as I went back to the car to get my spare battery pack. As I walked along the tracks I couldn’t believe my luck. I mean, here I was shooting a beautiful women all alone in an abandoned train yard.

“I’m so gonna get laid tonight” I said quietly to myself.

The sound was so loud it seemed to press in on my ears. It sounded like a gunshot. Then I heard a scream in the distance.

“angela!!!” I yelled

I went running back into the yard at full speed. When I got back to the abandoned car I saw a horrific scene. Angela cowered behind a tall man wearing fatigues and holding an m-16 rifle. On the ground near angelas feet was what appeared to be a body. I ran over and the man in the fatigues turned on me and pointed his gun right at my head.

“whoa, whoa, man! Take it easy” I said

“what do you people think you are doing here?” he asked forcefully

what do you mean I said, we were just taking some pictures” I replied

this area is off-limits to the public by order of the U.S. govt.”

“why? We aren’t hurting anybody” I asked

suddenly a large man appeared out of nowhere and tackled the military man to the ground. He started tearing into the private with his hands and teeth. Blood
spreading everywhere on the ground. Thinking quick I grabbed a piece of wood on the ground and bashed the attacker in the head.

“oh my god” angela screamed “is he dead”

“I don’t know” I gasped

somewhere out in the distance I heard a low groan. It didn’t sound like one prson was making it though. It sounded as if there were many noises and they were surrounding us.

“what the fuck is going on?” I asked angela

“I don’t know, I was sitting here smoking when this mad man covered in blood came running towards me. He grabbed me and bit my arm. That’s when the other guy showed up and shot him in the head.” She said

I took a closer look and saw that she was indeed bleeding pretty heavily from her arm.

“we have to get you to the hospital” I said “you’re bleeding out pretty bad”

“I tripped when he attacked me and twisted my ankle, I don’t think I can walk”

just then several figures appeared in the distance. They shambled and moved slowly against the darkness. I grabbed the rifle the military man was carrying and ran back to angela. I heard her scream and when I turned around I saw the military man slowly get up and shamble towards us. He was quickly joined by several others and they started advancing on us.

“ok, I think its time to go’ I yelled as I scooped up angela in my arms and raced towards my car.

Just as I saw my car in the distance I was chased down by a large man who tackled me into the ground and knocked angela a few feet in front of me. The rifle slipped from my grasp, I turned over and on top of me was a man covered in blood and snarling in my face. I screamed as I struggled to free myself from his grasp. Out of nowhere I heard a shot and the mans head exploded on top of me. I pushed the man off to see where the shot was coming from and saw angela sitting on the ground holding the rifle.

“let’s get the fuck out of here” she screamed “there’s more coming.

I turned around and saw several people coming towards me. a few were running but most shambled along in a jerky manner. I grabbed angela and threw her over my shoulder. She sat atop me and continued firing shots into the night. We made it to the car just as the runners caught up to us. I threw angela n the passenger side and jumped in and started it up. Several of the people were now surrounding the car and were climbing on the top. I hit the gas and watched as the few that were on the car get thrown off.

“that was way too close” I said “what the fuck were those things?”

I waited for a response but one never came. There was only silence.

“angela…..angie, wake up” I yelled

I reached over to check her pulse and her skin was cold to the touch.

“NO!!!!” I yelled into the night as I stopped the car.
I sat there for what felt like forever. Thinking about what just happened and cursing god for letting angie die. I heard a low growl that seemed to be a far way off and when I turned to look at angie, to my surprise her eyes were open and dead. She jumped across the center console and tried to grab my neck with her teeth. I sprang out of the car and yelled in fright.

“what the hell is going on here” I screamed at the top of my lungs

thinking quickly I grabbed the rifle from the backseat and fired several shots into the car. I left her and the car on the side of the road and made my way home to start what turned out to be the darkest days of mankind.