THE BEGINNING
The reason that this is listed under T is because the beginning of the apocalypse will never just be known as a beginning. It will always be the beginning. With the obligatory capital T.
When the apocalypse gets underway, it’s important to understand that it won’t be a slow-burning affair that will idly work its way across the world as government bodies and authorities fail in their task to keep their countries safe and secure. When it hits, it will hit hard and it will hit fast. You could go to bed one night with the world at peace and in relative harmony and wake up the next morning with buildings burning, bloodied bodies piled high, the streets in chaos, the wail of the injured, gunfire and sirens piercing the air, and nuns running naked through the streets.
Likewise, you could step from the calm and peaceful streets of your town into a restaurant to grab something to eat and by the time you had finished your steak and ale pie with curly fries and had left the building, the main road could be in uproar with overturned cars, the undead chewing on the living, blood-smeared shop windos, store alarms piercing the air and nuns running around naked.
Equally as likely is that you could leave your desk in your open-plan office to go for a quick wee. After you’ve finished relieving yourself you may return to your desk only to find severed limbs strewn across the carpet, furniture upended against doors, your workmates either dying, dead or reanimated, the sprinkler system and fire alarms going off and nuns running around naked.
What you need to learn from these examples is that when the apocalypse does begin you will have little or no time to gather your thoughts. You must be ready to react immediately to the situation and be capable of putting all the survival techniques you have learnt into immediate action. There will be no time to react to the horror you are witnessing. No time to take in the scenes of degradation. Of complete chaos. Of death and destruction. And certainly no time to take in the naked nuns.