ZOOPOCOLYPSE

Archivist Note: These are the writings of a band of survivors after the zombie outbreak in North America. We find our survivors bunkered in a zoo in western Washington. Washington is the first known red zone. These journal entries, notes, letters, and images are a collection of their thoughts and experiences.

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ZOOPOCOLYPSE

Journal Entry #8

October 17, 2022 • Kaotix Illustrated • Season 1 • Episode 25

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Exhaustion.

Written and Voiced by Adam Botsford
Original music by Ian Botsford

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Journal Entry # 8

Ready by Adam, man's voice

In our lives we expect, and are expected, to become accustomed to new challenges. Every hardship is supposed to be laced with some hidden curve...a threshold for when it gets easier to deal with. That breaking point in which you can feel some optimism about the end. None of this has gotten easier. Zombies don't get easier to deal with. I don't know if you know this, but dead people seriously out number living people. It's a bizarre idea that we are meant to take for granted. Well, taking it for granted is easier when they don’t get back up to remind you of their presence.

I spend most nights dreaming of the horrors we’ve experienced since this all started. My sleeping habits had already been riddled with nightmares before all this. Even as a kid I was plagued by images of monsters, ironically …zombies, even gremlins...terrifying things of all sorts. But now my mind has fuel. It has real life images to hone its terrifying skills. My days and nights are now filled with zombies. With Death. Rotting flesh. The smell of bodies. No one was built to endure this.

I feel exhausted.