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Authors: David Wellington

BOOK: Positive

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t took a while for them all to get to Hearth, all the patients from the camp in Pasadena, but they're here now. All the positives who were still being shipped to Akron, tooâÂthey come here now instead, in twos and threes, flown in by army helicopter. And Hearth grows. It gets bigger every day, and we're not afraid of the coming winter.

It grows another way, too.

In case you're wondering, it was a girl. Kylie gave birth to a little girl, just a little over seven pounds, easily the most beautiful child who ever lived. If you ask me.

We named her Heather.

We didn't tattoo her little hand, and we're not going to.

About the Author

Photo by Jennifer Dikes

DAVID WELLINGTON was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where George Romero's classic zombie films were shot. He is the author of an online zombie serial, the Monster Island trilogy;
Thirteen Bullets,
a serialized vampire novel; and the Jim Chapel missions, including the digital shorts “Minotaur” and “Myrmidon,” and the novels
Chimera
and
The Hydra Protocol
. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Credits

Cover design by Adam Johnson.

Cover photographs: road Â© by Jayne Szekely/Arcangel Images; woman/car Â© Shutterstock.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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POSITIVE.
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FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-Â0-Â06-Â231537-Â3 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-0-06-240035-2 (international edition)

EPub Edition MAY 2015 ISBN: 9780062315380

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