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June 24, 2015
Teaser: Julianne Snow #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Julianne Snow’s The Dead of Penderghast Manor! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
An Excerpt from The Dead of Penderghast Manor
Julianne Snow
Perhaps now would be a good time to explain what actually occurs after death. Death is not completely final. There is something that remains once one’s pulse stops; a consciousness, best described as an afterlife, continues.
There are a few that escape the eternal box; they’re the faceless, nameless people that you sometimes pass on the streets. The ones that you ignore, or rather, forget to notice. Unlike the Hollywood version of the Zombie mythos, they are unconcerned with consuming living flesh. Their main goal is to find a quiet place to exist until the moment their bodies completely give out.
In some rare cases, they seek out living companionship and to an extent, respect.
The best known example is a comedienne who shall remain nameless. Hell, it’s obvious to anyone that she’s had a lot of work done. Her…
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Teaser: Melanie Karsak #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Melanie Karsak’s Midway! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Midway: A Harvesting Series Novella
We had been driving for a few hours, trying the radio with no luck, when we finally came to a fork in the road. We had a choice between two dirt roads. We pulled over and examined the map. The Bronco was low on gas, and the small town that was supposed to be there wasn’t. Vella’s map was as old as her Bronco. There was no sign of a town or anything else anywhere. I had wanted to get away from people, but I didn’t want to be in the middle of nowhere. Both roads looked equally country. We knew Mama Rosie’s truck wouldn’t be able to make the haul. She’d have to ride with us.
“Let me go talk her into coming with us,” I said to Vella, opening the door.
“I can move some stuff and fit her in the back.”
“It…
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June 23, 2015
Teaser: Candy O’Donnell #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Candy O’Donnell’s Z-Radio! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Teaser
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Later that evening I sat near the office and decided to strike out on my own, without anyone else knowing what my intentions were. Words could not describe the feelings twisting within my chest. I felt like somehow I was abandoning those in the building. After one last glance at the station, I strode from the area with Darren, Ryan, and the doc in tow.
We had let in an entire eater pack while the others were sleeping. They hadn’t tied me up that tightly. I knew they wanted to harm me, and it was not my time to die. My heart knew what needed to be done. It was up to me to ensure the three men’s safety after I unbolted the door and let in the hungry horde.
One almost bit Ryan, but Darren was able to stab it in the eye before his arm became…
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Teaser: A. Giacomi #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from A. Giacomi’s Zombie Girl! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Zombie Girl Teaser
Eve Brenner was an ordinary girl from an ordinary small town. She always dreamed of becoming something more. Her desire for excitement leads her to study archaeology in university and she lands herself a volunteer spot on a high profile dig in Egypt. Her best friends Alexandra, and Cameron (who has had a crush on Eve since High school) join her on the journey and share the same lust for adventure, but they get more than they bargained for.
Eve decides to wander off on her own and inspect some restricted areas at the dig site. Her eagerness for fame and praise from her favourite professor Dr. Whalther Hugo Augustus, lead her deep into a dark tomb. Eve soon realizes that she is not alone down there. Something in the shadows bites her, and changes her life forever.
When Eve wakes up after the attack, she senses…
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Teaser: Jolie Du Pre #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Jolie Du Pre’s Benton! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Standing outside the tent city gates, our situation becomes all the more real. We no longer have access to the van we used to drive to Tent City. Until we get on the helicopter and get to Oklahoma, we have no place to stay. We’re homeless and on foot now. That’s it.
“All right,” Todd says. “We’ve got a long walk ahead. So let’s stick together. Keep your eyes and ears open.”
“How do we know your helicopter is even where it’s supposed to be?” says Angela. Despite our being in the zombie apocalypse, her short, dark hair looks like it’s been cut at a salon. Someone must be good with the scissors.
Todd rolls his eyes. “I told you before. My chopper is locked up. Nobody is going to get to it. Besides, you’d have to know how to fly the fucker.”
“Don’t get snippy,” says Angela. “I was…
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Teaser: Mark Tufo #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Mark Tufo’s Zombie Fallout! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Hey all here is but a small sample to whet your whistle! Please remember this has not been edited in any shape way or form and is really in its roughest drafts at the moment so place forgive any issues. Other than that I hope you enjoy it. Would have loved to add a bit more but we started getting in to spoiler territory. Obviously if you haven’t read up through ZF8 this might not want to be where you start!
ZF9
Prologue –
The ride back from North Carolina was as emotionally high as I can remember being since the zombies had come. What I felt going forward would always be tempered with the losses we’d suffered along the way. So the baseline would be a lot lower to start with, it was an evil born from the devastation. Still though to feel elation, love, accomplishment, just the…
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Teaser: Saul Tanpepper #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from Saul Tanpepper’s Contain! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Teaser for Contain (a BUNKER 12 title)
“Phones are down.”
“Phones? How is that even possible?” I notice that the lights on the street are out. In fact, lights everywhere are out. I smell smoke. “What’s happening?”
“Not now, Finn,” he says, his words clipped. He slips past the front of the car, keys jangling in his hand. “Hurry!”
A block away, someone is running down the sidewalk in our direction, a woman. I can’t tell who it is, but she’s really in a hurry. And something in the way she moves strikes me as odd.
“Get in the car!” Dad hisses.
“But maybe she knows—”
“Get in the goddamn car, Finn! Now!”
I glance back at the woman, and suddenly I’m terrified. She’s moving way too fast, and I don’t like the way her legs scissor. It’s not natural.
“Dad, what’s going on?”
The door opens and slams…
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June 22, 2015
Teaser: John Palisano #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from John Palisano’s Dust of the Dead! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
An excerpt from Dust of the Dead:
It’s been ten years since the dead came back to life. Things aren’t like they were in all the zombie books, movies, and TV shows. There weren’t really independent bands of rogues battling it out. Things never really got too traditionally post-apocalyptic in that way. Instead, it was more like the world went into lock down. The best way I can describe it is that we all had curfews, and it was like living in the bad part of the city, no matter where you went in the city. You had to be mindful. You had to keep a look out over your shoulder. One of the undead might spring out from behind a car or dumpster. But there weren’t hordes of them. Well, that’s not true. There were, but they were mostly gathered at cemeteries. And really? They pretty much stuck inside…
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Teaser: John O’Brien #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt from John O’Brien’s A New World: Reckoning! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
A New World: Reckoning excerpt
On the edge of the pipes between the two hallway corners, I lie on my side with my suppressed Beretta in my hand, listening for the sound of the guard returning. It takes a while but, even though I don’t hear the door he went through opening, I do hear his footsteps echoing off the walls. I hear the beep of the keypad next to the door and the lock clicks. Disregarding my pounding heartbeat, I roll off the conduits.
The guard swings the door open as I hit the ground just behind him. He starts to turn at the sound but I shove him through the door before he gets the chance. He stumbles inside with a yelp and I follow hard on his heels. I instantly take in the surroundings; a wall of monitors opposite the door with a bank of equipment in…
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Teaser: Jake Bible #SummerofZombie
Read an excerpt of Jake Bible’s Z Burbia! #SummerofZombie
Originally posted on Dying Days:
Z-Burbia Teaser-
You know what? For a smart guy, I’m pretty fucking stupid. I’m not a big believer in the afterlife or heaven or God or anything like that. But one thing I do believe in is karma. I’ve just experienced it too much to ignore it. My whole life has been one long chain of spiritual cause and effect events. I should know better than to jinx myself by saying, “At least I’m still moving.”
The truck sputters, sputters, lurches, and dies. I try to turn the ignition as the truck slowly comes to a stop, but it does nothing. I crank and crank and crank, hearing the battery get weaker and weaker.
“What the fuck?” I say. “What’s wrong now, you piece of shit? Huh? You need a binky? Baby need its fucking binky?”
I look at the dashboard and slap my forehead.
No, baby needs to be…
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