Quickly, you stand up and stumble toward the nearest house with four solid walls. The house stands four houses down from your current position, now three, two. You look back and see that thing limping much quicker than you expected in your direction. For something so decayed, it moves with inhuman speed. Not at all graceful, but somehow managing a steady forward momentum that you could not match in the same condition.

You reach the house and frantically try to open the front door. It's locked. Looking over your shoulder, with your hand on the door knob, you see the monster hissing with each awkward jaunt it takes toward you. You quickly take a few steps back and begin kicking at the door. It gives a little, but not much. You keep kicking. If you weren't so weak, you feel you could easily bust it open. The monster is close now. Filled with fear, you kick faster and harder. With the monster less than ten feet away, you finally manage to break the door open. With one loud crack it swings inside and bangs against the inner wall. You hobble into the house and close the door as hastily as possible, leaning your back against it to hold it shut. You're in.

You can feel banging against the door, undoubtedly that thing trying to get inside. In front of you, a little out of your reach, you see a sturdy looking chair. It could barricade the door. There is no way you can reach it while holding the door shut. Hoping you are faster than the thing outside, you make a mad dash toward the chair. By the time you reach it, the door swings open and the monster begins to enter. Picking up the chair, legs out, you run straight at the monster, using the chair as a ram in hopes of propelling it back out onto the street. When you collide with the monster, one chair leg punctures its abdomen and a foul erupts into the air. It struggles to bite and scratch you, but you use your leg to kick it back out the door. Moaning, it topples onto its back. You slam the door and prop it shut using the chair.

With only your heavy breathing filling the air, you put your hands on your knees and stare at the door. Sweat pours down your face as you wonder if the door will hold. On the outside, you hear the monster scuffling around and banging again at the door. The door shakes with each hit, but it doesn't budge. The door is secured, but the banging continues.

And then it stops. Has it given up? Silence.

Creeeeeeek

Before you can turn around you feel teeth enter the back of your neck. You let out a painful scream as you violently claw at your neck to free yourself. Out of the corner of your eye you see another one of those things eating your flesh. It wraps it arms around you, chewing further into your neck. As pain shoots through your body you fall to your knees. Your eyes bulge in terror as you think of how to escape. You weaken and fall forward, right onto the chair blocking the door, knocking it loose. Lying on your stomach, the last thing you see is the monster from outside lunging at your face. Coldness ripples from your neck throughout your body, then numbness, then nothing.