Austin's "Wish Fulfillment Fable"

Today in class when we were discussing the zombie apocalypse as a "wish-fulfillment fables” I started to think about what I would do if a zombie apocalypse broke out when I was here at Shepherd. I’ve always thought I’d have pretty low chances of surviving, seeing as I have very little experience with survival skills, and have never even picked up a real gun, but if it happened while I was at school I’d be really screwed.

Let me go ahead and mention that I am not from around here. Prior to this fall semester I’d never set foot in this part of the state, so if the residence halls got overrun, I’d have nowhere to go. I also don’t own a vehicle. This makes a trip to Food Lion difficult enough. Escaping from a herd would be all but impossible.

So what would my plan be? Well, arming myself would be almost out of the question. Even if I could get my hands on a weapon it wouldn’t be much use to me. I’m going by Walking Dead rules here, and me scoring a headshot is a statistical impossibility. No, my best shot would be getting the heck out of here. I would have to find a car to steal (and please keep in mind that under no circumstances short of an apocalyptic scenario would I actually steal a car) and make my way back to the southern part of the state. My hope would be that Charleston wouldn’t have been overrun. Down there I have family and friends with guns and places to hide out. I could walk that city with my eyes closed. If I could get there I might have a chance.