[ WP ] The dead begin to rise as zombies , but have no interest in human flesh or brains , preferring normal human food sources .

Nathan pushed aside the half empty pizza box, fried chicken buckets, donut boxes and numerous snack food bags that littered his bed in search for the remote and muted the TV. He had been hearing thumping from below him which he attributed to the soccer teams staying in the hotel for the big tournament but this was something different. It sounded like a scream. Nathan waited a few minutes sitting on the edge of his bed waiting to see if he could hear anything more. Silence. 
 
 `` Probably just hearing things.'' He said to himself. 
 
 He laid back on his bed and reached for the remote. More thumps and something that could only be described as a terrified scream rang out from what sounded like the hallway in the floor above him. *Thump thump thump thump. * Someone ran towards the stairs in front of Nathan's room. *Thump thump thump thump. SLAM! * Whoever it was seemed to have changed their mind. He picked up the phone to see if the front desk had any idea of what was going on but hung up after the 15th ring. 
 
 `` They're probably super busy with everyone calling.'' 
 
 Nathan was n't sure if he was completely convinced. He peeked out of the peep hole and saw nothing but the door across the hall. He slid the chain lock out and slowly opened the door. 
 
 `` Are you alright?'' Nathan asked. The large woman he asked was limping toward the vending machine and clothed in strangely outdated formal attire. Slowly she turned around and Nathan gasped. This woman's skin was peeling from her face, her hair was stringy and patchy, her eyes looked like they looked past him. And the smell. He could smell the rotten stench from where he stood. There was no doubt she was dead. Before he could fully process what he was seeing, the woman was running towards him at full sprint. Nathan tried to slam the door but her arm seemed to have gotten in the way. She did n't cry out in pain or even seem to notice that her elbow was now bent in the wrong direction. Panic seized Nathan as he tried to push her out of his room but being the small framed man that he was, he lost. Nathan fell to the ground and tried to reach for his cell phone but it was buried under the mountain of food and trash. He was cornered. The woman lunged at him and Nathan braced himself for her teeth to sink into his skull. 
 
 He heard rustling and opened his eyes and lowered his arm. The woman was sitting on the floor with her legs crossed and a slice of pizza in one hand and a handful of gummy worms in the other. Her dead eyes rested on the food in her hands for what seemed like hours. Nathan was starting to wonder if she was still undead or if she had re-died. Then without warning, she started shoveling the food into her dilapidated mouth. He stared at her in confusion and caution, still unsure of her, himself, and the entire situation. After several handfuls of badly paired junk foods, the zombie woman looked up at Nathan and, without letting go of the food, started crawling towards him. He backed up against the wall and tried to stand but not before the woman took her left fist full of mashed up donut holes and thrust it into Nathan's face approximately near his mouth and gave him a rotten toothy smile and grunted. He opened his mouth and took a bite. The zombie woman seemed pleased as she started bouncing and making a horrid but no doubt excited grunting noise. He laughed at the spectacle in front of him, picked up the box of See's candies he bought last week and opened it. He picked a lemon truffle for himself and a caramel and marshmallow fluff one for his new zombie friend. Together they shared all the left over food in his room and when there was no food left. She stood up and walked out in search for more.
