Rebecca Besser's Blog, page 36
November 24, 2015
Teaser: Scott M Baker #WinterofZombie
Scott M Baker’s Teaser for #WinterofZombie!
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Originally posted on Dying Days:
Winter of Zombie 2015 Teaser for Rotter Nation:
Mike Robson stood behind the barricade of Jersey barriers. To his rear lay the southern ramp to Tukey Bridge. Ahead of him, Portland was silent and surprisingly deserted of rotters. That only increased his apprehension of having sent out Dravko and Tibor to scout the area. He reasoned that being vampires they had the best chance of surveying the city and making it back on their own. They had been gone for over three hours and should have returned long ago, unless something had happened to them. He stared into the night, wondering what lay in the darkness.
“Where are they?”
“Don’t worry. They’ll be back soon.” Natalie Bazargan reached out and slid her hand into his, giving it a reassuring squeeze.
Robson appreciated the gesture. He couldn’t help but notice that, as she spoke, Natalie scanned the area to check…
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Teaser: Joseph A Coley #WinterofZombie
Joseph A Coley’s Teaser for #WinterofZombie!
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Curtis casually stepped on the power company zombie’s back, pinning him down. He knelt down and ended the creature’s existence with a swift stab to the back of the skull with 1095 Cro-van steel. Curtis wiped the business end of the knife on the power company zombie’s khaki pants before putting it away in its sheath.
“Nasty bastards. I’m with you on the whole ‘getting back to normal’ thing, Keith. This shit used to be a challenge. Feels more like a job now.”
Keith forced open the flimsy door. “Yeah, well it is the shittiest job I believe I’ve ever had, and I worked for some uppity assholes before I became a cop.”
“Like what?” Curtis asked pushing the zombie aside with his foot.
“In college I worked landscaping for some rich fuckers in New York. Builds character, but I had to listen to more than my fair share of…
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November 23, 2015
Teaser: Russell James #WinterofZombie
Russell James’ Teaser for #WinterofZombie!
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Originally posted on Dying Days:
Q Island by Russell James Chapter 1
He’d never been so hot.
Despite the plummeting temperature, rivulets of sweat streamed under the wooly mammoth’s thick, coarse hair. He felt as hot as on a summer’s day, though the cold north wind whipped a dusting of crystalline snow around his feet.
All week, he’d felt abnormal. His joints ached. When he dug for roots with his tusks, shooting pains, like two massive splinters, ran through his skull. In these last few days, he had felt progressively worse. The Siberian plain seemed to bend and roll before his eyes.
Waves of rage often crashed within him without cause, and then receded. Sometimes strange sights and colors appeared, and then disappeared as if by magic.
He scanned the endless grayscape through his watery eyes. The overcast sky and the vast open plain met at some invisible point on the horizon, giving the world…
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Guest Post: Mike Evans #WinterofZombie
Mike Evans’ Teaser for #WinterofZombie!
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Originally posted on Dying Days:
SMALL BUDGET
I don’t know that this is so much of an article as it is a grief. One that many of you probably feel each and every time that you turn on your television or sit down with you iPad or smart tv or however you decide to stream your favorite shows and movies.
What is this guy going to whine about you say? No worries I’ll be getting there I promise. Budgets, I don’t understand them. Can you imagine how good of a zombie movie they could make if they sunk the kind of money into one consistently that something like The Terminator, or Titanic got to have.
I mean think of the epic scale movie they could do if you got someone like James Cameron behind a zombie film, it’d make people get butterflies in their stomachs at the shear thought of it. I love movies like…
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Teaser: Peter Welmerink #WinterofZombie
Peter Welmerink’s Teaser for #WinterofZombie!
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Originally posted on Dying Days:
Winter of Zombie 2015 Book Teaser Post
You can find another post regarding my Military Zombpocalypse Thriller, TRANSPORT, on Mr. Rosamalia’s regular blog. Here, I thought you might enjoy a little excerpt from TRANSPORT (Book Three) UNCIVIL WAR. My main character, Captain Jake Billet, finds himself in a bit of a predicament while on the west side of town where the “local” undead are contained.
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There is nothing more agonizing to listen to than the bawl of the undead. It is like listening to a cow at slaughter, where the beast isn’t quite dead and the chainsaw doesn’t bite through in that first stroke. All you know is the poor creature feels every steel tooth of the saw tearing into its flesh. The horrible death knell increases on the street as UCRA civilians, once living, breathing folks, humans, turn to puddles of gore. They are unable…
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Teaser: Jack Wallen #WinterofZombie
Jack Wallen’s Teaser for #WinterofZombie!
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Originally posted on Dying Days:
one | we once had dreams
The bullet left the pistol, as silent as the coming night. The look on Jacob’s face was serene and welcoming. He begged for death, and I was to be his angel of mercy. As the slug traveled the distance between death and life, it slowed until I could trace its path with my finger. As stealthily as it shot from the gun, it entered the bony casing around Jacob’s brain.
Only this time, he didn’t die. He sat there, staring at me, blinking and bleeding from his eyes, mouth, and nose─everywhere but the wound.
“There’s a storm heading your way, Bethany,” Jacob whispered, his voice a chorus of horror. “You will run, but you will not flee.”
From the bullet wound in his forehead, a pale, white finger emerged. As the digit pushed forward, Jacob’s voice turned into a dread-filled moan. The pitch of…
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Teaser: Peter Meredith #WinterofZombie
Peter Meredith’s Teaser for #WInterofZombie!
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Originally posted on Dying Days:
Chapter 1
A First Kill
March 27, 2015
4:01 a.m.
For one man in Poughkeepsie, the screams and the frequent gunshots meant a dream come true. For Benjamin Olski, the zombies that were running amok outside his apartment window represented a chance of a lifetime, but only if he could rein in his fear.
Terror had been growing in his mind ever since he peered through his quarter-inch thick spectacles and watched the first man die on the street. It had been just some dude, looking stupidly preppie with his collar upturned and his khakis neatly creased. As though he were part of a morbid opera, he’d been surrounded by three of them in a wheel of golden light thrown down from a high streetlamp. With the dark all about, the scene was vague in its details and grainy like an old home movie.
The beasts were black-eyed and had…
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Teaser: PM Barnes #WinterofZombie
PM Barnes’ Teaser on #WinterofZombie!
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Originally posted on Dying Days:
Teaser from Zombie Seed II: Conception:
Al shook his head and cleared it of the memory as they arrived at the staging area for the observation room where Will was. He was shocked by the number of people gathered in the small space.
Steve looked up from a paper print out he was reviewing with two other scientists and moved over to them.
“Martin, Al, glad you could join us.” Al had to stifle his emotions. Did that little fuck face have any other greetings in his mental tool belt?
“It’s not looking good in there. It’s possible we might be losing subject 2.”
Al leveled a look at Steve that was filled with brazen hatred. Steve quickly looked away and continued talking about the details they had gathered since the onset of Will’s downward spiral.
Al, who was paying little attention had stepped away and moved over toward the…
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November 22, 2015
Teaser: James Dean #WinterofZombie
James Dean’s Teaser for #WinterofZombie!
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Originally posted on Dying Days:
This Dying World: The End Begins Teaser
When the dead began to move, our world changed forever.
No one was prepared for it. Zombie enthusiasts across the globe had laid out their survival plans. My brother and I played the “what if” game more often than I could count. There was always that assurance in the back of our minds that it was just a fantasy. It was impossible. Dead is dead, there’s no coming back.
We were wrong.
News was spotty at best during the first few days. But before the last of the broadcast signals winked out of existence, we learned what the infection was, for whatever good it did us.
We know what we need to know. They are relentless. If they catch us, they eat us. If they bite us, we become one of them. The bites are toxic, and always fatal. The transformation happens…
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Teaser: Rhonda Hopkins #WinterofZombie
Rhonda Hopkins’ Teaser for #WinterofZombie!
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Originally posted on Dying Days:
SURVIVAL EXCERPT
Blurb:
When Sarah escapes from her brutal abductors, she promises to return to rescue her twin sister, but with the walking dead invading Fort Worth, TX, she is forced to rely on a competitive coworker who made her work life hell for years. With her coworker weakened by cancer treatments, her sister still imprisoned, and zombies looking for an easy meal, Sarah’s only plan, if she can pull it off, is Survival.
Excerpt:
Sarah Jamison’s gaze met her twin’s fear-filled blue eyes. “I—”
“It’s no use. The cuff is too tight. You’re going to have to leave me.” Dana put her free hand on Sarah’s, stilling their frantic motions.
“No. I won’t leave you. Maybe I can . . .” She turned, taking in the empty basement—the cement walls, exposed pipes, and her sister handcuffed to one of the metal cylinders. A small amount of light trickled in…
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