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Just kidding. But I do have three very different short stories for you.
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The Dead of Penderghast Manor
by Julianne Snow
My Review
Zombies that don’t want to eat me? This I had to read.
Chester works at the family mortuary, preparing the recently deceased for their viewings. It should be easy. But these dead don’t hold still for embalming. They don’t lie still. They walk and talk.
He can’t have any disappearing so he has to handle them with care. This proves difficult when the local senior playboy wants to keep on being the ladies man, even after he’s dead.
Chester’s father doesn’t believe him when he tries to explain this, so he keeps it to himself and does the best he can.
Until a strange body arrives from the carnival. And has an even stranger request.
If you have a good imagination, you’ll be able to visual Chester’s struggles and have some good chuckles.
The zinger the author threw at me with the carnival corpse was creative and gave the ending a boost.
A fun and creepy told you so.
If you’re looking for a humorous take on a new kind of zombie, I suggest you try this story.
3 STARS
Synopsis
What would you do if you knew the Dead could talk?
For Chester Penderghast, it’s not the easiest of questions to answer…
Ensconced in the basement of his family’s mortuary business is the last place he wants to be, but when the conversation starts flowing, Chester’s the only living person who can hear it. What do the Dead want, and why is he the only one who can hear them?
This is not your average zombie tale—the Dead don’t want to eat your brains, but they will chew your ear off!
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Kellie’s Diary
by
Thomas Jenner
and
Angeline Perkins
My Review
I like finding something different and that’s what I got in Kellie’s Diary.
What first surprised me was the way the story was told. Not just that it was presented in diary entries from a third grader. It was that it was in her printed words. It read slowly at first until I got used to the way she printed her letters, then it took off and I read it in about 20 minutes.
The ending is rather abrupt, but knowing this is told in parts, I expected that. It’s going to be fun reading more of this series.
You follow Kellie as she’s trapped in the school bathroom when the zombies attack. And follow her through her diary entries as she struggles to get home.
The author did an excellent job of expressing the thoughts of a young girl. It never felt like an adult trying to write as Kellie. It rang true.
I’m anxious to find out if Kellie finds her family? If she finds anyone, so she won’t be all alone.
3 STARS
Synopsis
A series of diary entries through the eyes of a little girl as she tries to survive the end of the world.
What if the early 1990’s didn’t happen as we remember it? What kind of world would we live in today?
This story is told from the viewpoint of 9-year-old Kellie, a typical third-grade girl living her life as anyone else would, and she shares her daily activities with her diary. When the world crumbles and the dead walk, Kellie struggles to survive and find her way home, all the while sharing her tale with her diary.
This is an account of our hypothetical past, present and future.
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It Came From Hell And Smashed The Angels
by Gregor Xane
My Review
Ben used to be somebody. Now he lives in a rundown trailer, at the beck and call of a senior couple.
One night, he snaps. He hops on his treasured motorcycle and heads off into the night with no plans of returning. Just hits the open road.
When he spots a fire up ahead he slows and stops to investigate. Lying next to a huge hole in the ground is the mangled body of a woman. She was thrown from her car in the accident and before she dies, claims a huge creature attacked her car.
Ben hops on his bike and heads to the local watering hole to call for help. What happens next is out of this world.
I kept hearing the theme to Twilight Zone as I read this story. It had a dark, surreal feel to it.
Bizarre and a bit disjointed but I liked the idea.
3 STARS
Synopsis
Thanks to his big ugly mug, Ben Coburn always played the heavy in Hollywood. Yeah, his name was in the credits of a bunch of low-budget B-movie horror shows, but at least he could say he was in the movies.
That was a long time ago.
Now Ben sits alone in a trailer park listening to an old married couple across the way argue about money, just nursing a beer, waiting for something to happen.
But nothing ever happens. That pisses him off.
No, Big Ben Coburn isn’t going to wait around anymore. He jumps on his motorcycle and tears off into the night.
Intent on escaping into a new life, he races past a field of scarecrows, barreling headlong down the highway toward a blazing inferno and a bottomless pit.
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