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everything changed. 
                  “Sarge, you better come take a look at this.”
                  Coming down the street towards the Guard's blockade was a solid wall of zombies.  There had to be at least a thousand of them.  The other three soldiers ran to the doors and looked out.
                  “We gotta get out there.  Mister, you stay here.  We'll be back in a few minutes.”
                  I thought to myself 'There's too many of them.'  If they went out there, they wouldn't be coming back.  The four of them ran out of the store to join their company.  I locked the doors behind them and ran back to the roof.  What I saw when I got there was carnage.
                  The only thing that slowed the horde down at all was the zombies falling over the ones that were gunned down in front of them.  One would fall down and the zombies behind them would stumble over their bodies.  Then they'd get back up and keep advancing.  Twenty men just weren't enough against a thousand zombies.  By the time they overran the guardsmen, it wouldn't have mattered anyway.  Zombies were coming from all directions.  When it was all over with, several thousand were outside the store.  It was worse than the two policemen the night before.  There was nothing but shredded uniforms and bones left.  All this happened in less than ten minutes.
                  We didn't just sit and watch this happen.  When the guardsmen opened fire so did we.  It just didn't make a difference.  When it became apparent we couldn't help them Al had us stop shooting.  It was a waste of ammunition and we didn't want the zombies to know we were in the store.  Al was afraid that many trying to get in would eventually break out the glass windows.  When it was over, the horde moved on.  Only a few dozen stayed behind.
                  “We can't go out there.  Can't we stay here?”  Cindy sobbed.  “We should have stayed in your bomb shelter.”
                  “Now honey, we talked about that.  There ain't nobody going to come rescue us.  We'd have been stuck down there.  You saw all those bastards wandering around the neighborhood.  We barely made it out of there.”
                  “It was safe there.  It's not safe here.  Eventually, they'll find us.”
                  “We're not staying here.  Once we get away from the city, we'll be fine.”
                  “You don't know that.”
                  With that, Cindy went back down the hatch.
                  “You know, Al, she's right.”  Gina said.  “The thing Cindy doesn't understand is that nobody is ever going to be safe again.”
                  “You're right sweetheart.”  Al said.  “I'm hungry.  You think we could get a barbeque pit up here?”
     
     
     
    Chapter 7
                  The smell hit me when I got to the bottom of the stairs.  The dead bodies had to go.  Al helped me drag them to an exit door in the back.  I wanted to throw them down the trash chute but Al didn't think that would help the smell much.  I slowly opened the door and looked out.  It wasn't exactly in the back of the store but more to the side.  The door was out of sight from the front of the store so the zombies wouldn't be able to see us.  Al made me take the arms and he took the feet.  He stopped when he saw the little girl.  Al gave me a disgusted glare, bent down, and carefully picked up the child in his arms.  He said I'd used 'too much gun' and hoped 'I'd learned my lesson.'  He turned away from me but not before I saw a tear run down his cheek. 
                  When we finished with that, we went looking for the girls.  They were just outside the back room talking.  As we approached, I heard something down one of the aisles.  I stopped while Al kept walking towards