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Sibling Rivalry
Now this is a story for those who have an understanding for it. Many of us have been there, and many a time it hasn’t turned out pretty. Combine it with a zombie apocalypse, and it’s just plain deadly. Claire and Jennifer have always had trouble getting along. Jennifer was older, and more mature by…
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The LIVING Dead
Of course people were scared. We used to enjoy it. Back in the good old days of Starbucks and H.B.O, we would flock to the cinema to see some hideously disfigured maniac gleefully tear through a pack of scantily clad teens. We would sit around campfires, relating tales of hook-handed killers and giant urban reptiles.…
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All the World is Stages
1. What? You’ve got to be kidding! There’s no way that broke the skin! That can’t be my blood!
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Hero Worship
It was bitterly cold, as it had been all month, and although it slowed Zack down considerably, it made searching for supplies a miserable task. I had been out with Geoff and Donna since eight that morning, and yeah, we’d found some canned goods and a little bottled water, but all any of us wanted…
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Crash and Burn
“Oh good, you’re awake. How are you feeling?” “I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. What happened? How did I get here?” “I was hoping you’d be able to answer your first question. The rest of your squad brought the two of you back; she’s in real bad shape.” “She who? What do…
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An Englishman in New York
Hey Paul. For me, it isn’t the hordes of the walking dead that make here being intolerable, it’s the loneliness. Although everybody I’ve spoken to has lost someone close to them, at least they have the scant comfort of being surrounded by their countrymen. Two weeks in the states had been your idea, something to…
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The Writing’s on the Wall
I should be relaxing in Montana right about now. All I had to do was get on that plane and I would be safe. Now, I’m going to become one of those things that I spent most of the day fighting off. One of those ghouls got hold of my leg and sunk her teeth…
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Get This Man a Laptop
He walked with a limp in his right leg. That was the first thing they noticed. The second was the calm clarity and certainty with which he spoke. Later, but not until much later and separately, they would figure out that he timed his meeting so that he would be alone with them in the…
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The Hidden Truth
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw said that over a century ago. I know that ’cause I like to collect quotes from famous people. I’ve got eight quote books back at my bunk. I’m trying to catalog…
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One last Breath
During the first weeks of the zone I lost my mother. Then I lost my kid brother. I was beginning to think death was only to come by way of the scourge. Was rare that anyone past naturally or accidentally. All you read about in the obituary is “Cause of death: Unknown.” Although everyone knew…
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The Long Journey
Lloyd O’Keefe loved to tell stories. To pass the time Lloyd would entertain others with wild tales. One winter evening a small crowd gathered in the hotel lobby trying to stay warm and away from the howling winds outside. Lloyd thought that a story might take their minds off of the cold for a little…