Tag: Coffee

Shuffling to the pot

Feet moving in the blind dark

Cursing and yawning

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Since you have been so good and read this far.  Here is a little more of the short story “A Zombie Thanksgiving.”  Publishing September 4th or somewhere around it.  Thanks again for reading and following.

Dawn looked behind her, then to her left and right.  No other zombies shifted about in the late fall heat, at least not from where she was currently standing.  She turned back to the store, steadied her nerves, and turned on her light (this light was on a strap that ran around her head, so she could keep her hands free).  She made sure her knife was still in place (it was), and the gun was ready to fire.  Both were ready to do the job they were meant to do.  She started to walk, ever so slightly, crunching on broken glass as she moved forward.

The parking lot outside might have looked bad, cars burnt, turned over, crashed or abandoned, carts strewn about, bodies dead and decaying, birds picking at the best parts of their flesh; but inside the store it was a different world all together.  This place looked like a massive mob had just bulldozed its way through, knocking over shelves, people, carts, busting out the glass in the frozen food sections.  Dead bodies were scattered everywhere.  Some had parts of shelves sticking out of them, some of them devoured by zombies, some partially eaten by animals living wild in the area.  It was a picture of mass panic frozen in a time of chaos.

The smell inside the store also wasn’t pleasant, rotten flesh, rotten meat, spoiled milk, all kinds of putrid things in a state of decay mingled and danced together in the non-air-conditioned air.  Dawn had a strong stomach, so she was able to force her brain to focus on pleasant subjects.  This kept her stomach from losing what little bit of food she had in it.

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You can read the first four pages for free at Noise Trade and skip all this reading individual posts non-sense.  Click this link to do it: http://books.noisetrade.com/atothewr/a-zombie-holiday-trilogy

Find the first Haiku in this series here: http://wp.me/p2kmxm-3m5

Mumbling and grumbling

Acting on caffeine instincts

Shambling to the pot

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