The Sixteenth Sign
Jack’s boots crunch against the leftover stalks of his recently harvested field. Brittle corn stumps scratch against his boots as he places the axe on his…
The Great Panic
“Pick up de phone Amber,” John Sipos paced and ran a calloused hand through his white hair. He held his bulky satellite phone to his head. John was an…
The Fourteenth Sign
Martha lets her Great Pyrenees out, but regrets it and shouts for her dog to come back, but it’s too late; Kumquat has already found it. Lush overgrown green…
Knowledge Is Worth It
Forget everything you ever thought you knew. Crack your skull open and let us see the brilliance. Red and orange and purple spewed out--and we didn’t know what…
The Sixth Sign
She drinks a lot of water at dinner. The burning in her throat is merciless, and the tide she consumes, pitcher-full after pitcher-full, does nothing to…
Beauty Queen Zombie
Don’t touch me. Don’t look at me. I am falling apart. My jaw has loosened and it’s slipping--slipping like everything else! The wounds that cover my face…
Early Morning Caller
It was... oh, man. I can’t even describe it. It was like a weird dream. I woke up at 3 o’clock. I was thirsty, so I went downstairs into the kitchen to grab…
2 Days 6 Hours and 10 Minutes (Z)
The sun was setting. The door was locked and boarded up. What light he had left was slipping away beyond the horizon. He looked through the slits in the iron…
Gas, Guns and Suburban Zombies
Ding, ding, ding. The empty gas light blinked over and over. Was my alarm clock trying to jerk me out of a nightmare? Nothing. I stepped on the gas. Nothing…
Hollow Man
David’s nerves hummed with adrenaline. His thoughts were focused on only one person: Tricia. _Did she escape? Is she hiding out somewhere safe? Does she have…
A friend...
Frank stumbled out of the warehouse, mind numb. “Fuckfuckfuck...whatthefuckishappeningtome?” He mumbled, body feeling colder and colder. He staggered on, past…
The Best Laid Plans...
The group, a ragtag band of citizens recruited to bolster the police force walked through the quiet town in a huddle. They peered this way and that, hands…
Interrogation
Well... This is new. Of course, he’d been in jail before, but those times had been for petty theft and drunken disorder. Not murder. He fidgeted nervously in…
Strain 253
Edwin quickly exited the police station, and ducked into the parking garage. Inside the car, he glanced around - the parking garage was empty. He rubbed his…
The Outbreak
“Autopsies?” “Yes. But we didn’t find anything wrong with them. They look and act, so... normal.” The police station was engulfed in chaos, but the…
Year Zero
The War had been over for months now. Most of civilization had faded to ash after the first bombs were dropped leaving roughly half of the world either…
A Conversation
“I’ve been thinking about leaving,” he told me. His eyes stared into nothingness, straying from reality. his face was coated with filth he hadn’t bothered to…
Zombie Family
Those were strange days inside the house, a drama that was but one of countless in deathtraps across the country. The trio lived in the bleak reality of their…
Zombie Widow
She found him cowering in the corner of thier bedroom, he hestitated too long staring at what until recently was his beloved blonde haired housewife. In his…
Errrgghh Raarahhh!!. Episode II
But your testicles and ovaries, that’s an entirely different story. Our brains are firing on the degraded primitive circuits of fight/flee, hunger, and…