The Journal Of The Life Of Tom Marks

Chapter l: The First Encounter.

So the start of it all. I still see it today clearly, like a movie clip playing in my head over and over. I was on my way to my job as a forklift operator at a cookie factory on March 13 2020. I took my usual rout I always took witch was the highway by my house turn right on the bypass an left at the first light an boom I was there, only it didn’t work out that way that night. At the time there was a illness going around, at the time I didn’t think it was anything to worry about. People were freaking out tho buying all the toilet paper and other nonsense stuff like that. To me it was no different then your everyday flu. It was call the corona virus, it is a virus that’s been around for years in livestock. It had mutated over the years, even in the past there was SARS and even a Middle East version called MERS. To me tho it was just a respiratory syndrome that had happen to develop pneumonia. It didn’t hurt young adults or kids that much mainly the older population. Well anyways here I am on my way to my graveyard shift, When I noticed the car in front of me beginning to swerve. I remember thinking to my self at that moment,”damn he is fuucked up”. It was at this time he skidded into the side of the small bridge we where on. All I remember see is sparks flying threw the air like a Fourth of July sparkler. There car jerked away smashing the rear end now into the side ripping the back bumper off, then now having a bumper hurtaling twords me. I swerve to try and avoid it failing of course an turning my own car in to a fireworks sparkler. The car in front of me cleared the bridge now straight into the concrete median causing the wheel to buckle and making it flip. I quickly try to avoid the same fate by adjusting my self off the side of the bridge. Having a hard time seeing threw my now crushed windshield I tried to avoid anymore debris that could put me in a worse situation. I come to a stop an notice some blue lights behind me, apparently the car behind me was a police officer.

 He ran up to my car and asked me if I’m ok. I said,”I’m one hundred percent I just s**t myself, but other then that I’m good”. He nodded then ran to the rolled sedan in front of me. I stepped out of my car, an started walking in the same direction. I shine the light of my phone threw where the back window should be. I noticed the two passengers of the vehicle were seizing, or at least that’s what it looked like. I convey this to the officer as he tries to open the drivers door. Both of us hoping these idiots didn’t overdose on something finally get the door open. Looking at the people inside made my stomach turn a bit. I see before me two people whose skin had turned this almost battle ship grey looking color, their hair was falling out, and there eyes where as red as a demonic tomato. Me thinking this is normal from such a bad accident. I try my best to try and free these (now making gurgling noises) mummified remains looking people. I notice the officer backing up. I hear him mumble,”this doesn’t look right”. I turn to ask him what he was talking about when I feel someone grab my hand. I’m staring eye to eye with this mummy and notice this is not a mummy anymore. This b***h got strong. Immediately I start feeling pressure on my hand. She was squeezing it. Tighter and tighter, I felt pain shoot threw my arm as I cry out. It was about the same time I herd a crushing sound I herd a loud Bang! My ears where ringing so loudly my vision blurred. My hand was free at this moment so I scudded on the ground away from the car like a cat that just got stepped on. My vision started coming back to me as I’m looking at my hand, I could feel a broken bone inside along with what seemed like two dislocated fingers. I try an put my fingers back in there rightful sockets when I hear the officer say the we have to go and we have to go now. Confused and like a dipshit I ask him why? He just pointed still holding the gun up. I look over and see this thing that busted my hand unbuckling it’s seat belt while staring at me like a yummy drumstick, it was at this time I knew this thing is no longer human. I bolt to the cop car with the officer in persuit. I hear three more bangs as a reach for the door and jump in with the officer right behind me. Now sitting in the car I look up and staring at what looked like a grey Ronda Rousey with four bullet holes in it. Two where in its leg, one was in its shoulder, and the last one that had defined me earlier was threw both cheeks dislocating it’s jaw. Now I’m no medic, or anything like that but I knew that was not right by any means. The officer slams the gear shifter in reverse and floors it to create some distance. We noticed a car on the opposite side of the road had stoped and the grey like MMA fighter looking thing turned twords it. We watched as this thing opens the door of the car as they tried to drive off. The car manages to drive off, but not uninjured. The police officer and I sitting in shock at what we just witnessed, had got snapped out of it when we herd a thud against the windshield. My eyes quickly switch to this object in disbelief. A arm; probably a elderly man, it had a twisted looking mark on it from where this beast had grabbed it to rip it off. The police officer starts to panic as this monster now turned twords us and started walking. The officer jumps out and unloads the rest of his bullets into the demon in front of us. The last bullet fired hits it’s forehead, and pops it’s skull almost like a confetti popper. It drops with a thud. The officer starts to move to the monster on the ground, “it’s dead”, he shouted noticing me pointing he turns around. Standing behind him is anouther grey monster like thing. I look in disbelief as this thing bites a huge chunk of meat out of the officer’s shoulder. Like a movie scene I see blood squirt out, as I try to snap out of what I saw I shift over to the drivers seat. I slam the shifter to drive and press the gas as hard as I can presuming the officer is dead. The car hits this monster with a bang slamming into the car that rolled. I shift back into reverse to start my hasty retreat. Switching back to drive I bust a u turn and gun it. The only thought I had at this time (minus how much my right hand hurt) was I have to get to my family as fast as I could. Driving away I hear the officers radio go off, “hey Mike are you alright you never radio back about that accident”. I grabbed the radio and told them about the events that unfolded before me. They urged me to go to a hospital after asking what happened to there fellow officer. I told them I do not know I saw a lot of blood and my only thought was to get away as fast as I could. I switched the radio off so I could collect my thoughts as I sped home as fast as I could.