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    The Cold
    The Cold
    The Cold
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    The Cold

    By Lee Pletzers

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    First appeared in: Cold Flesh 2004 (Hellbound books). Zombie fiction. Two people battle it out trying to survive in a town over-run by 'thinking/hunting' zombies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTriskaideka Books
    Release dateJan 2, 2011
    ISBN9781458052001
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      The Cold - Lee Pletzers

      THE COLD

      By Lee Pletzers

      ©2004 Lee Pletzers

      Smashwords Edition

      All Rights Reserved

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, except in the case of brief quotations in critical reviews, without permission of the Author. This book is a work of fiction. The characters, names, events and places are fictitious and products of the authors imagination. Any similarities to actual persons -living or dead, places or events, are entirely coincidental and should be treated as such.

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      Mike shivered.

      Opera Sands didn’t usually get cold in winter. Not this cold anyway. But he was wet and sitting against a tree in the middle of the night and keeping watch. God, he wanted to sleep! Four days now, yet it felt like forever.

      The walking dead were everywhere. For protection, he had only his wits, a hunting dagger and his martial arts ability that wouldn’t be of any help in this situation.

      Against the darkness of the forest, his eyes fluttered shut. Mike tried to open them but

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