My name is Lachlan. After Z-Day, I will go by the name of Sonan. I was, once, simply a normal person. Nothing on my mind but the average musings of a student.
Until, of course, one simple misunderstanding brought me to a stark, painful realisation.
The fateful day occurred when I was 16. It was over my summer break, and I was sleeping peacefully at approximately 8:00am.
Next door to my house, there lives a gigantic rottweiler. An enourmous and aggressive dog, I try to avoid it as much as I can. Today, however, I could not ignore it? Why?
It was moaning. Not the simple whinings of a dog, or even a low-rattling growl. This was the long, mournful howl of a dog that had lost its mind...or perhaps its mortality.
Even though it was this sound that woke me and my head was still blurry, the sound chilled me to the core. I sprang out of bed, straining my ears, to ensure that I had indeed heared correctly. Sure enough, the sound came again. I hurreidly dressed in long-sleeved clothes and jeans, grabbed my hockey stick, and tentatively went outside.
I heared sirens, and screaming in the distance.
I had never before considered the possibility of a zombie outbreak, and thus was cursing myself. I was not prepared. I had no plan. I immediately locked all of the doors to the house, and placed my three hockey sticks at intervals, in case zombies should get in and gain ground, I would still have a weapon on hand. I instructed my family not to leave the house, but they did not take me seriously. I feared for their safety.
I began to plough the internet for any information I could find, but all I discovered was joke information. Nothing even remotely useful. If only I had found this site then.

It turned out to be nothing. The sirens were causing the dog next door to make the strange howls, and the screaming was children at a pool party several houses away.
But the incident did bring something to light, for me. That a zombie outbreak was very possible, and that I wasn't prepared.
I have been searching for reliable information since that day, to properly prepare myself, and today, I find myself here, at what might just be humanity's last hope.

Viva Huamnity.