Zombie Zoo
“The sky was the color of phlegm shot through with black blood, there was a haze that obscured the horizon, and he couldn’t quite tell where the sun was. Their suits began feeding them information about what they were looking at, the composition of the atmosphere, landmarks, pathways, waypoints; but still, it took the couple almost a full minute to understand what they were seeing.
Harlan’s first impression was that of seaweed deep under the ocean, huge tattered grey leaves that swayed to some occult ocean current. Harley’s first thought was of a conquered army, defeated and haunted by defeat.
Arrayed before them was a vast meadow of corpses, standing upright, dressed in filthy rotting clothes and staring blankly ahead.”
The above is an excerpt from the short story, Zombie Zoo, published in Martinus Publishing’s Science-Fiction Horror anthology The Life of the Dead.