Can't a father go out with his family again without something ruining it? I would have been happy if it had been just traffic causing the issue, but no, it had to be something much more outrageous – the apocalypse. Imagine what was supposed to be a family outing turning into a fight for survival against zombies in an instant. It doesn't change much, though. I'm still trying to be the best husband and father I can be, and the apocalypse ain't changing that!
When the apocalypse descended on Earth, it brought a lot of mutation-like changes along with it.
Changes Malachi and the others had also seen the surface of.
It would take time before they realised just how much the world they lived in has changed and how little they knew of it in the first place.
Aside from the human mutation, which was categorised in two: the failed mutated humans that ended up as zombies and the mutated ones that Malachi and others like him were categorised under, other life forms and even inanimate objects had mutated as well.
Animals, insects, parasites, even bacteria and viruses, and many more had mutated alongside the arrival of the apocalypse.
While Malachi and many other people in the world thought the current state of the world was already hell, it would only take a while for them to wish it had remained the way things currently were.
A story for another time in the future.