Rebecca Besser's Blog, page 72
October 26, 2012
Michael S. Gardner - Wild Week!
Zombies Gone Wild!
Death is not the end…
“Zombies Gone Wild!” is a chilling collection of twenty-six stories from established authors as well as up-and-coming writers in the genre, with an opening poem from everyone’s favorite zombie. This anthology includes tales where the undead stand as a symbol of unification for a desperate world, where friends really are what you make them, and where new beginnings aren’t always a good thing.
The end is only the beginning…
Bizarre, humorous, and terrifying, “Zombies Gone Wild!” will satiate your hunger for zombie goodness.
WITH STORIES FROM:
Patrick D’Orazio, S.P. Durnin, Rebecca Besser, C. D. Carter, Nicholas Conley, and Adam Millard, and many more!
Zombies Gone Wild! is now available on Amazon!
Table of Contents
Blood, Sweat and Tears by William R.D. Wood
Cindy Lou, Who? by Cassandra Hex
Complete Caretaker by Hassan Riaz
Pollution by Brandon Cracraft
Admit One, Undead by Rebecca Besser
A Horrid Abundance by Bruce L. Priddy
The Horrors of Trench Warfare by David Indish
Dreams of a Dead Man by Shaun Meeks
Deadbeat by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
Damage Limitation by Adam Millard
The Departed by Peter Bailey
The Hills Have Zombies by Amber Keller
A Boy and His Bicycle by Nicholas Conley
What’s Eating You? by Patrick D’Orazio
Life (and Death) on the News Feed by C.D. Carter
A Love Best Served Cold by Thomas M. Malafarina
Devolution by Kevin Brown
The Lighthouse by Chris Daruns
A Science Experiment by Indy McDaniel
Being Neighborly by Carey Burns
The Crow by Meg Marquardt
The Path/Five Miles of Darkness by Craig Workman
The Harbingers by Charlie Morgan
Damon is Dead by Paul S. Huggins
Is That a Shillalah in Your Pocket…? by S. P. Durnin
Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse of 2012 by Joseph Channon
Michael S. Gardner, one of the editors of Zombies Gone Wild!, was asked a few questions by me about the book and zombies. Let's see how he answered:
Bec: Where did the idea for zombies gone wild come from?
Mike: It’s not much of a secret now to those who know us that Matt and I are working on a novel together. A few months back, he told me about his anthology, “So Long and Thanks for All the Brains,” while we were discussing a few scenes in our book. I even helped edit a few stories in it. From the start I was intrigued. Usually you only see an anthology with specific guidelines, be it a Western or Period, Erotic or Thriller, et cetera, et cetera. For Matt’s antho, the only thing required was zombies, which allowed such a creative freedom for his writers that some of the best stories I’ve ever read could be created. One story in particular sticks with me to this very day. It is a tale of a male sportscaster that falls for his co-caster, who happens to be a man as well. And the game they’re calling… Well, let’s just say it’s one for the books. After finishing the story, I found myself blown back. The premise for this tale, for me, was so odd, so wild, that I had to have more! And then the idea just popped in my head: Zombies Gone Wild! I approached Matt with the idea of publishing it through the Collaboration of the Dead brand, and he was a stoked as I. The next day the sub calls were put out.
Bec: Why zombies?
Mike: Short answer: Why not? LOL! Long answer: It’s true that we’re in the Golden Age of rot. Everywhere you turn you see zombies. Surprisingly enough, this spotlight has increased gun sales, MRE sales, and a variety of other survival equipment sales. They’re on the big screen, the boob tube, comics, books, out on our streets at local events. Hell, even the CDC is getting in on the action. So from a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense to invest in a project such as this. But none of it will ever compare to the fanboy inside. I’ve loved zombies before they were the craze (like most of us). My first zombie flick was the remake of Night of the Living Dead. “They’re coming to get you, Barbara,” so eloquently and frighteningly put by one of the best actors alive, Bill Moseley, is one of those eternal lines not to be forgotten for years to come. And I wanted to take part in something that will hopefully be remembered for some time in the genre.
Bec: Why wild?
Mike: I don’t want this comment to be construed as negative or insulting, so please keep that in mind. To me, the “wild” in Zombies Gone Wild! means total creative freedom. All you need is zombies. That’s it. Nothing else required. This, in theory, would bring in writers from all sorts of genres. In execution, it did. There are many fans out there who write, but not all of them write in such strict guidelines as most anthologies out there. And those anthologies are all great. There are many unique books out there that require certain elements. I just wanted to give every fan/writer out there to write that zombie story they always wanted to. I’m sure there are a few stories in the antho that will make some cringe and some possibly even cry. Others might laugh. But the one thing I think that “wild” brings to the table is this: You’ll NEVER know what to expect. Anything can happen with “wild.”
Bec: What's the wildest thing you've ever done?
Mike: Hmm… I’m not sure if I should be documenting this, but f*** it. Back when I was a senior in high school, a few friends and I would oftentimes skip and do things some might construe as… well, not on the right side of the law. One of these things was that we would find our way into an abandoned convalescent center on one of the numbered streets just before downtown. It was weird… The place was abandoned by all things living, save for maggots and rats. And it still had power. Even the darn vending machines! The place was a wreck, a perfect spot for your average horror flick. Epic, in my personal opinion. Epic! We had some real good times in there. Wheelchair races, beer, and… other things I’ll not disclose over the interwebs. One day comes to mind. We ditched class, got not-sober, and hung out on top of a still-working elevator. Well, we weren’t the only ones ditching. Some freshmen ended up getting in the elevator and sent it up a few floors. Me, being not-sober and all, looked up and immediately thought of Emilio Estevez and how he died in the first Mission Impossible movie. After a friend shook me out of the daze, we all started shouting expletives and threats, stomping and punching the roof of the elevator, and laughed our rears off as the freshman started screaming for help and whatnot. It only lasted a few seconds before we told them we were joking. Needless to say, they weren’t that happy at first, but it was all laughs by the end of the day. Ah, the good old days. Ha!
Bec: What's the most extreme situation you think someone could be in when dealing with a zombie?
Mike: The most extreme condition with a zombie? Hmm… Realistically thinking (redundant, right?), I’m going all in with the scenario of a survivor in the beginnings of the apocalypse who has just watched someone close to them reanimate, still unsure of what exactly is going on. Like a father having to deal with is undead princess. With a bat or a crowbar as his only weapon. That’s pretty extreme, if you ask me.
Bec: If you had a zombie fighting badge for your Zpoc team, what would it say? What would your motto be?
Mike: “We shoot first and never ask,” would encircle a zombie’s head, with a crosshair above its right eye for commanders, over its left eye for grunts.
Bec: What kind of zombie scares you the most? Why?
Mike: See, this, unfortunately, is where I see myself losing people here. To me, the running zombies fascinate me more than the shamblers. Simply put, it would be entirely too easy to survive a NOTLD apocalypse. Hell, most zombies you could simply just walk by like Barbara or push over and laugh as they fall down a hill. You can’t do that with “runners.” They chase you, unwavering, relentless, and incapable of running out of breath. The slap-slap-slap of their rotted feet would become a maddening score composed by the devil himself, and it would be everywhere. Stumbling across one “runner,” to me, would be as bad as a horde of shamblers. Now what if you were being pursued by a horde—or hordes—of runners? Yeah, that would be scary. I don’t care how much ammunition you have…
Bec: Was there a specific wild situation you would have liked to see in a story that you didn't? What? Why?
Mike: Yes, there was. I’m grateful in the fact that I have MANY talented writers as friends. One night, just as the antho was wrapping up, I posted a certain theme that was missing, one that I REALLY wanted to see. Charlie Morgan stepped up to the plate and hit a homerun. So, if you really want to know what was missing at the time, I guess you’ll have to buy the book and look up Charlie Morgan’s story.
Bec: What was the hardest part about choosing the stories that would be included in the anthology?
Mike: Rejections. Unfortunately not every story could make it in the first and second anthology. (Yes, there WILL be a second installment of Zombies Gone Wild!).
Bec: In one sentence, tell the world why they should buy a copy of Zombies Gone Wild!:
Mike: Zombies Gone Wild! is an anthology where the rotting ranks are unchained and unbound, and what else could you ask for?
Death is not the end…
“Zombies Gone Wild!” is a chilling collection of twenty-six stories from established authors as well as up-and-coming writers in the genre, with an opening poem from everyone’s favorite zombie. This anthology includes tales where the undead stand as a symbol of unification for a desperate world, where friends really are what you make them, and where new beginnings aren’t always a good thing.
The end is only the beginning…
Bizarre, humorous, and terrifying, “Zombies Gone Wild!” will satiate your hunger for zombie goodness.
WITH STORIES FROM:
Patrick D’Orazio, S.P. Durnin, Rebecca Besser, C. D. Carter, Nicholas Conley, and Adam Millard, and many more!
Zombies Gone Wild! is now available on Amazon!
Table of Contents
Blood, Sweat and Tears by William R.D. Wood
Cindy Lou, Who? by Cassandra Hex
Complete Caretaker by Hassan Riaz
Pollution by Brandon Cracraft
Admit One, Undead by Rebecca Besser
A Horrid Abundance by Bruce L. Priddy
The Horrors of Trench Warfare by David Indish
Dreams of a Dead Man by Shaun Meeks
Deadbeat by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
Damage Limitation by Adam Millard
The Departed by Peter Bailey
The Hills Have Zombies by Amber Keller
A Boy and His Bicycle by Nicholas Conley
What’s Eating You? by Patrick D’Orazio
Life (and Death) on the News Feed by C.D. Carter
A Love Best Served Cold by Thomas M. Malafarina
Devolution by Kevin Brown
The Lighthouse by Chris Daruns
A Science Experiment by Indy McDaniel
Being Neighborly by Carey Burns
The Crow by Meg Marquardt
The Path/Five Miles of Darkness by Craig Workman
The Harbingers by Charlie Morgan
Damon is Dead by Paul S. Huggins
Is That a Shillalah in Your Pocket…? by S. P. Durnin
Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse of 2012 by Joseph Channon
Michael S. Gardner, one of the editors of Zombies Gone Wild!, was asked a few questions by me about the book and zombies. Let's see how he answered:
Bec: Where did the idea for zombies gone wild come from?
Mike: It’s not much of a secret now to those who know us that Matt and I are working on a novel together. A few months back, he told me about his anthology, “So Long and Thanks for All the Brains,” while we were discussing a few scenes in our book. I even helped edit a few stories in it. From the start I was intrigued. Usually you only see an anthology with specific guidelines, be it a Western or Period, Erotic or Thriller, et cetera, et cetera. For Matt’s antho, the only thing required was zombies, which allowed such a creative freedom for his writers that some of the best stories I’ve ever read could be created. One story in particular sticks with me to this very day. It is a tale of a male sportscaster that falls for his co-caster, who happens to be a man as well. And the game they’re calling… Well, let’s just say it’s one for the books. After finishing the story, I found myself blown back. The premise for this tale, for me, was so odd, so wild, that I had to have more! And then the idea just popped in my head: Zombies Gone Wild! I approached Matt with the idea of publishing it through the Collaboration of the Dead brand, and he was a stoked as I. The next day the sub calls were put out.
Bec: Why zombies?
Mike: Short answer: Why not? LOL! Long answer: It’s true that we’re in the Golden Age of rot. Everywhere you turn you see zombies. Surprisingly enough, this spotlight has increased gun sales, MRE sales, and a variety of other survival equipment sales. They’re on the big screen, the boob tube, comics, books, out on our streets at local events. Hell, even the CDC is getting in on the action. So from a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense to invest in a project such as this. But none of it will ever compare to the fanboy inside. I’ve loved zombies before they were the craze (like most of us). My first zombie flick was the remake of Night of the Living Dead. “They’re coming to get you, Barbara,” so eloquently and frighteningly put by one of the best actors alive, Bill Moseley, is one of those eternal lines not to be forgotten for years to come. And I wanted to take part in something that will hopefully be remembered for some time in the genre.
Bec: Why wild?
Mike: I don’t want this comment to be construed as negative or insulting, so please keep that in mind. To me, the “wild” in Zombies Gone Wild! means total creative freedom. All you need is zombies. That’s it. Nothing else required. This, in theory, would bring in writers from all sorts of genres. In execution, it did. There are many fans out there who write, but not all of them write in such strict guidelines as most anthologies out there. And those anthologies are all great. There are many unique books out there that require certain elements. I just wanted to give every fan/writer out there to write that zombie story they always wanted to. I’m sure there are a few stories in the antho that will make some cringe and some possibly even cry. Others might laugh. But the one thing I think that “wild” brings to the table is this: You’ll NEVER know what to expect. Anything can happen with “wild.”
Bec: What's the wildest thing you've ever done?
Mike: Hmm… I’m not sure if I should be documenting this, but f*** it. Back when I was a senior in high school, a few friends and I would oftentimes skip and do things some might construe as… well, not on the right side of the law. One of these things was that we would find our way into an abandoned convalescent center on one of the numbered streets just before downtown. It was weird… The place was abandoned by all things living, save for maggots and rats. And it still had power. Even the darn vending machines! The place was a wreck, a perfect spot for your average horror flick. Epic, in my personal opinion. Epic! We had some real good times in there. Wheelchair races, beer, and… other things I’ll not disclose over the interwebs. One day comes to mind. We ditched class, got not-sober, and hung out on top of a still-working elevator. Well, we weren’t the only ones ditching. Some freshmen ended up getting in the elevator and sent it up a few floors. Me, being not-sober and all, looked up and immediately thought of Emilio Estevez and how he died in the first Mission Impossible movie. After a friend shook me out of the daze, we all started shouting expletives and threats, stomping and punching the roof of the elevator, and laughed our rears off as the freshman started screaming for help and whatnot. It only lasted a few seconds before we told them we were joking. Needless to say, they weren’t that happy at first, but it was all laughs by the end of the day. Ah, the good old days. Ha!
Bec: What's the most extreme situation you think someone could be in when dealing with a zombie?
Mike: The most extreme condition with a zombie? Hmm… Realistically thinking (redundant, right?), I’m going all in with the scenario of a survivor in the beginnings of the apocalypse who has just watched someone close to them reanimate, still unsure of what exactly is going on. Like a father having to deal with is undead princess. With a bat or a crowbar as his only weapon. That’s pretty extreme, if you ask me.
Bec: If you had a zombie fighting badge for your Zpoc team, what would it say? What would your motto be?
Mike: “We shoot first and never ask,” would encircle a zombie’s head, with a crosshair above its right eye for commanders, over its left eye for grunts.
Bec: What kind of zombie scares you the most? Why?
Mike: See, this, unfortunately, is where I see myself losing people here. To me, the running zombies fascinate me more than the shamblers. Simply put, it would be entirely too easy to survive a NOTLD apocalypse. Hell, most zombies you could simply just walk by like Barbara or push over and laugh as they fall down a hill. You can’t do that with “runners.” They chase you, unwavering, relentless, and incapable of running out of breath. The slap-slap-slap of their rotted feet would become a maddening score composed by the devil himself, and it would be everywhere. Stumbling across one “runner,” to me, would be as bad as a horde of shamblers. Now what if you were being pursued by a horde—or hordes—of runners? Yeah, that would be scary. I don’t care how much ammunition you have…
Bec: Was there a specific wild situation you would have liked to see in a story that you didn't? What? Why?
Mike: Yes, there was. I’m grateful in the fact that I have MANY talented writers as friends. One night, just as the antho was wrapping up, I posted a certain theme that was missing, one that I REALLY wanted to see. Charlie Morgan stepped up to the plate and hit a homerun. So, if you really want to know what was missing at the time, I guess you’ll have to buy the book and look up Charlie Morgan’s story.
Bec: What was the hardest part about choosing the stories that would be included in the anthology?
Mike: Rejections. Unfortunately not every story could make it in the first and second anthology. (Yes, there WILL be a second installment of Zombies Gone Wild!).
Bec: In one sentence, tell the world why they should buy a copy of Zombies Gone Wild!:
Mike: Zombies Gone Wild! is an anthology where the rotting ranks are unchained and unbound, and what else could you ask for?
Rebecca Besser - Wild Week!
Zombies Gone Wild!
Death is not the end…
“Zombies Gone Wild!” is a chilling collection of twenty-six stories from established authors as well as up-and-coming writers in the genre, with an opening poem from everyone’s favorite zombie. This anthology includes tales where the undead stand as a symbol of unification for a desperate world, where friends really are what you make them, and where new beginnings aren’t always a good thing.
The end is only the beginning…
Bizarre, humorous, and terrifying, “Zombies Gone Wild!” will satiate your hunger for zombie goodness.
WITH STORIES FROM:
Patrick D’Orazio, S.P. Durnin, Rebecca Besser, C. D. Carter, Nicholas Conley, and Adam Millard, and many more!
Zombies Gone Wild! is now available on Amazon!
Table of Contents
Blood, Sweat and Tears by William R.D. Wood
Cindy Lou, Who? by Cassandra Hex
Complete Caretaker by Hassan Riaz
Pollution by Brandon Cracraft
Admit One, Undead by Rebecca Besser
A Horrid Abundance by Bruce L. Priddy
The Horrors of Trench Warfare by David Indish
Dreams of a Dead Man by Shaun Meeks
Deadbeat by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
Damage Limitation by Adam Millard
The Departed by Peter Bailey
The Hills Have Zombies by Amber Keller
A Boy and His Bicycle by Nicholas Conley
What’s Eating You? by Patrick D’Orazio
Life (and Death) on the News Feed by C.D. Carter
A Love Best Served Cold by Thomas M. Malafarina
Devolution by Kevin Brown
The Lighthouse by Chris Daruns
A Science Experiment by Indy McDaniel
Being Neighborly by Carey Burns
The Crow by Meg Marquardt
The Path/Five Miles of Darkness by Craig Workman
The Harbingers by Charlie Morgan
Damon is Dead by Paul S. Huggins
Is That a Shillalah in Your Pocket…? by S. P. Durnin
Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse of 2012 by Joseph Channon
Admit One, Undead - by Rebecca Besser, excerpt:
He was almost asleep when his stomach began to gurgle again. Hurriedly he sat up, opened the door, and threw up more blood. The dome light gave off enough of a glow for him to see that his vomit was red, but he was too weak, and his brain was too tired, to process what was happening to him.
Closing the door, he lay down, using Grace’s leg as a pillow. Soon he fell asleep. Not long after, so did she.
In her sleep, Grace didn’t notice when Nick stopped breathing and died. She didn’t notice when he opened his eyes again, or that they were now vacant and cloudy. But, she did notice when he started grabbing at her.
“Hey, what are you doing?” Grace mumbled as Nick’s rough handling woke her up.
“Maaaaaa!” Nick moaned, as he took a hold of her shoulders, violently pinning her to the seat.
Bio: I'm the author of the zombie novella, "Undead Drive-Thru," and, "Nurse Blood." I'm also a graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature. My work has appeared in the Coshocton Tribune, Irish Story Playhouse, Spaceports & Spidersilk, joyful!, Soft Whispers, Illuminata, Common Threads, Golden Visions Magazine, Stories That Lift, Super Teacher Worksheets, Living Dead Press Presents Magazine (Iss. 1 & 2), FrightFest eMagazine, An Xmas Charity Ebook, The Stray Branch, and The Undead That Saved Christmas (Vol. 1 & 2) and the Signals From The Void charity anthologies. I have multiple stories in anthologies by Living Dead Press, Wicked East Press, Pill Hill Press, Hidden Thoughts Press, Knight Watch Press, Coscom Entertainment, Crowded Quarantine Publications, and Collaboration of the Dead (projects), and one (each) in an anthology by Post Mortem Press, NorGus Press, and Evil Jester Press. I also have a poem in an anthology by Naked Snake Press.
I'm also an editor and have edited: Dark Dreams: Tales of Terror, Dead Worlds 7: Undead Stories, and Book of Cannibals 2: The Hunger from Living Dead Press; Earth's End from Wicked East Press; End of Days: An Apocalyptic Anthology (Vol. 4 & 5/co-edited) from Living Dead Press; and I'm currently editing It's Weighing On You Mind from Hidden Thoughts Press, and co-editing Beneath The Pretty Lies from Wicked East Press.
When I'm not busy writing and/or editing, I'm formatting book covers, building/maintaining websites, and writing book reviews.
For more information, visit my website: www.rebeccabesser.com
< a>align="center">Copyrights owned by Rebecca Besser 2010-2012. All rights reserved.
Death is not the end…
“Zombies Gone Wild!” is a chilling collection of twenty-six stories from established authors as well as up-and-coming writers in the genre, with an opening poem from everyone’s favorite zombie. This anthology includes tales where the undead stand as a symbol of unification for a desperate world, where friends really are what you make them, and where new beginnings aren’t always a good thing.
The end is only the beginning…
Bizarre, humorous, and terrifying, “Zombies Gone Wild!” will satiate your hunger for zombie goodness.
WITH STORIES FROM:
Patrick D’Orazio, S.P. Durnin, Rebecca Besser, C. D. Carter, Nicholas Conley, and Adam Millard, and many more!
Zombies Gone Wild! is now available on Amazon!
Table of Contents
Blood, Sweat and Tears by William R.D. Wood
Cindy Lou, Who? by Cassandra Hex
Complete Caretaker by Hassan Riaz
Pollution by Brandon Cracraft
Admit One, Undead by Rebecca Besser
A Horrid Abundance by Bruce L. Priddy
The Horrors of Trench Warfare by David Indish
Dreams of a Dead Man by Shaun Meeks
Deadbeat by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
Damage Limitation by Adam Millard
The Departed by Peter Bailey
The Hills Have Zombies by Amber Keller
A Boy and His Bicycle by Nicholas Conley
What’s Eating You? by Patrick D’Orazio
Life (and Death) on the News Feed by C.D. Carter
A Love Best Served Cold by Thomas M. Malafarina
Devolution by Kevin Brown
The Lighthouse by Chris Daruns
A Science Experiment by Indy McDaniel
Being Neighborly by Carey Burns
The Crow by Meg Marquardt
The Path/Five Miles of Darkness by Craig Workman
The Harbingers by Charlie Morgan
Damon is Dead by Paul S. Huggins
Is That a Shillalah in Your Pocket…? by S. P. Durnin
Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse of 2012 by Joseph Channon
Admit One, Undead - by Rebecca Besser, excerpt:
He was almost asleep when his stomach began to gurgle again. Hurriedly he sat up, opened the door, and threw up more blood. The dome light gave off enough of a glow for him to see that his vomit was red, but he was too weak, and his brain was too tired, to process what was happening to him.
Closing the door, he lay down, using Grace’s leg as a pillow. Soon he fell asleep. Not long after, so did she.
In her sleep, Grace didn’t notice when Nick stopped breathing and died. She didn’t notice when he opened his eyes again, or that they were now vacant and cloudy. But, she did notice when he started grabbing at her.
“Hey, what are you doing?” Grace mumbled as Nick’s rough handling woke her up.
“Maaaaaa!” Nick moaned, as he took a hold of her shoulders, violently pinning her to the seat.
Bio: I'm the author of the zombie novella, "Undead Drive-Thru," and, "Nurse Blood." I'm also a graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature. My work has appeared in the Coshocton Tribune, Irish Story Playhouse, Spaceports & Spidersilk, joyful!, Soft Whispers, Illuminata, Common Threads, Golden Visions Magazine, Stories That Lift, Super Teacher Worksheets, Living Dead Press Presents Magazine (Iss. 1 & 2), FrightFest eMagazine, An Xmas Charity Ebook, The Stray Branch, and The Undead That Saved Christmas (Vol. 1 & 2) and the Signals From The Void charity anthologies. I have multiple stories in anthologies by Living Dead Press, Wicked East Press, Pill Hill Press, Hidden Thoughts Press, Knight Watch Press, Coscom Entertainment, Crowded Quarantine Publications, and Collaboration of the Dead (projects), and one (each) in an anthology by Post Mortem Press, NorGus Press, and Evil Jester Press. I also have a poem in an anthology by Naked Snake Press.
I'm also an editor and have edited: Dark Dreams: Tales of Terror, Dead Worlds 7: Undead Stories, and Book of Cannibals 2: The Hunger from Living Dead Press; Earth's End from Wicked East Press; End of Days: An Apocalyptic Anthology (Vol. 4 & 5/co-edited) from Living Dead Press; and I'm currently editing It's Weighing On You Mind from Hidden Thoughts Press, and co-editing Beneath The Pretty Lies from Wicked East Press.
When I'm not busy writing and/or editing, I'm formatting book covers, building/maintaining websites, and writing book reviews.
For more information, visit my website: www.rebeccabesser.com
< a>align="center">Copyrights owned by Rebecca Besser 2010-2012. All rights reserved.
Thomas M. Malafarina - Wild Week!
Zombies Gone Wild!
Death is not the end…
“Zombies Gone Wild!” is a chilling collection of twenty-six stories from established authors as well as up-and-coming writers in the genre, with an opening poem from everyone’s favorite zombie. This anthology includes tales where the undead stand as a symbol of unification for a desperate world, where friends really are what you make them, and where new beginnings aren’t always a good thing.
The end is only the beginning…
Bizarre, humorous, and terrifying, “Zombies Gone Wild!” will satiate your hunger for zombie goodness.
WITH STORIES FROM:
Patrick D’Orazio, S.P. Durnin, Rebecca Besser, C. D. Carter, Nicholas Conley, and Adam Millard, and many more!
Zombies Gone Wild! is now available on Amazon!
Table of Contents
Blood, Sweat and Tears by William R.D. Wood
Cindy Lou, Who? by Cassandra Hex
Complete Caretaker by Hassan Riaz
Pollution by Brandon Cracraft
Admit One, Undead by Rebecca Besser
A Horrid Abundance by Bruce L. Priddy
The Horrors of Trench Warfare by David Indish
Dreams of a Dead Man by Shaun Meeks
Deadbeat by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
Damage Limitation by Adam Millard
The Departed by Peter Bailey
The Hills Have Zombies by Amber Keller
A Boy and His Bicycle by Nicholas Conley
What’s Eating You? by Patrick D’Orazio
Life (and Death) on the News Feed by C.D. Carter
A Love Best Served Cold by Thomas M. Malafarina
Devolution by Kevin Brown
The Lighthouse by Chris Daruns
A Science Experiment by Indy McDaniel
Being Neighborly by Carey Burns
The Crow by Meg Marquardt
The Path/Five Miles of Darkness by Craig Workman
The Harbingers by Charlie Morgan
Damon is Dead by Paul S. Huggins
Is That a Shillalah in Your Pocket…? by S. P. Durnin
Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse of 2012 by Joseph Channon
Get to know a little bit about one of the contributing authors, Thomas M. Malafarina, as he answers a few questions and shares and excerpt from his story!
Bec: When you heard 'wild' and 'zombie' together, what was the first thing you thought?
Thomas: Besides the obvious redundancy of the terms "zombies" and "wild" (Who ever heard of calm, passive and playful zombies?), I envisioned something quite similar to the current cover of the book. Only what I saw in my twisted mind was probably too gory for the front of any cover, with lots more blood, guts and flapping, dripping entrails.
Bec: What's the wildest thing you've ever done?
Thomas: Wow! I can't believe I'm going to share this with you. Once I approached a 4-way stop intersection and I saw no one was at any of the other three stop signs. I decide to throw caution to the wind and I slowly approached my portion of the intersection. And although I almost came to a complete stop, I have to admit I did not completely stop. Then with a triumphant shout of defiance, I continued right on through the intersection. Oh yeah baby! Eat your heart out, James Dean.
Bec: What's the most extreme situation you think someone could be in when dealing with a zombie?
Thomas: Waking up and finding yourself surrounded by the creatures crawling a around your. You have to pretend to be dead all the while smelling the foul stench of their decomposition. You must endure feeling their icy drool dripping on you as you lay quietly faking slumber. Then you actually have some of them come so close that several of the maggots investing their putrefying walking corpses drop down onto your lips and try to burrow into your mouth. All the while, you know you can't move because if you do you know they will fall upon you and devour you alive.
Bec: If you had a zombie fighting badge for your Zpoc team, what would it say? What would your motto be?
Thomas: "Better dead than fed."
Bec: What kind of zombie scares you the most? Why?
Thomas: Politicians. For obvious reasons.
A Love Best Served Cold - By Thomas M. Malafaraina, excerpt:
She looked at Oswald through one filmy dead eye sunken deep in a bony dark ringed socket, not with fear or hatred but with an insatiable hunger. The other eye was missing, leaving a hollow pit crawling with worms. All that was left of her once beautiful tresses were a few patches, wispy strands of wild straw-like hair.
Her mottled gray flesh was covered with the filth and grime typical of her kind and dozens of flies swarmed about her. Some of them stopped to deposit their eggs in the puss-filled weeping sores, which covered her spasmodically gyrating corpse. Maggots from earlier deposits crawled from boreholes and dropped onto the bed sheets.
The single candle, although scented, did little to mask the vile stench of decomposition, which permeated the room.
BIO:
Thomas M. Malafarina (www.ThomasMMalafarina.com) is a horror fiction writer from Berks County, PA. He has published three novels, “99 Souls”, “Burn Phone” and most recently, “Eye Contact” and story collections called “13 Nasty Endings”, Gallery Of Horror", "Malafarina Maleficarum Volume One" and “Malafarina Maleficarum Volume Two” through Sunbury Press of Camp Hill, PA. (www.Sunburypress.com). Thomas is putting the finishing touches on a new novel, a ghost story to be released in the fall of 2012. He has also published a collection of single-panel cartoons called “Yes I Smelled It Too: Cartoons For The Slightly Off-Center” through Sunbury. He has written dozens of short stories, which have been featured in numerous anthologies as well as on internet audio podcasts
Copyrights owned by Thomas M. Malafarina, 2012. All rights reserved.
Death is not the end…
“Zombies Gone Wild!” is a chilling collection of twenty-six stories from established authors as well as up-and-coming writers in the genre, with an opening poem from everyone’s favorite zombie. This anthology includes tales where the undead stand as a symbol of unification for a desperate world, where friends really are what you make them, and where new beginnings aren’t always a good thing.
The end is only the beginning…
Bizarre, humorous, and terrifying, “Zombies Gone Wild!” will satiate your hunger for zombie goodness.
WITH STORIES FROM:
Patrick D’Orazio, S.P. Durnin, Rebecca Besser, C. D. Carter, Nicholas Conley, and Adam Millard, and many more!
Zombies Gone Wild! is now available on Amazon!
Table of Contents
Blood, Sweat and Tears by William R.D. Wood
Cindy Lou, Who? by Cassandra Hex
Complete Caretaker by Hassan Riaz
Pollution by Brandon Cracraft
Admit One, Undead by Rebecca Besser
A Horrid Abundance by Bruce L. Priddy
The Horrors of Trench Warfare by David Indish
Dreams of a Dead Man by Shaun Meeks
Deadbeat by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
Damage Limitation by Adam Millard
The Departed by Peter Bailey
The Hills Have Zombies by Amber Keller
A Boy and His Bicycle by Nicholas Conley
What’s Eating You? by Patrick D’Orazio
Life (and Death) on the News Feed by C.D. Carter
A Love Best Served Cold by Thomas M. Malafarina
Devolution by Kevin Brown
The Lighthouse by Chris Daruns
A Science Experiment by Indy McDaniel
Being Neighborly by Carey Burns
The Crow by Meg Marquardt
The Path/Five Miles of Darkness by Craig Workman
The Harbingers by Charlie Morgan
Damon is Dead by Paul S. Huggins
Is That a Shillalah in Your Pocket…? by S. P. Durnin
Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse of 2012 by Joseph Channon
Get to know a little bit about one of the contributing authors, Thomas M. Malafarina, as he answers a few questions and shares and excerpt from his story!
Bec: When you heard 'wild' and 'zombie' together, what was the first thing you thought?
Thomas: Besides the obvious redundancy of the terms "zombies" and "wild" (Who ever heard of calm, passive and playful zombies?), I envisioned something quite similar to the current cover of the book. Only what I saw in my twisted mind was probably too gory for the front of any cover, with lots more blood, guts and flapping, dripping entrails.
Bec: What's the wildest thing you've ever done?
Thomas: Wow! I can't believe I'm going to share this with you. Once I approached a 4-way stop intersection and I saw no one was at any of the other three stop signs. I decide to throw caution to the wind and I slowly approached my portion of the intersection. And although I almost came to a complete stop, I have to admit I did not completely stop. Then with a triumphant shout of defiance, I continued right on through the intersection. Oh yeah baby! Eat your heart out, James Dean.
Bec: What's the most extreme situation you think someone could be in when dealing with a zombie?
Thomas: Waking up and finding yourself surrounded by the creatures crawling a around your. You have to pretend to be dead all the while smelling the foul stench of their decomposition. You must endure feeling their icy drool dripping on you as you lay quietly faking slumber. Then you actually have some of them come so close that several of the maggots investing their putrefying walking corpses drop down onto your lips and try to burrow into your mouth. All the while, you know you can't move because if you do you know they will fall upon you and devour you alive.
Bec: If you had a zombie fighting badge for your Zpoc team, what would it say? What would your motto be?
Thomas: "Better dead than fed."
Bec: What kind of zombie scares you the most? Why?
Thomas: Politicians. For obvious reasons.
A Love Best Served Cold - By Thomas M. Malafaraina, excerpt:
She looked at Oswald through one filmy dead eye sunken deep in a bony dark ringed socket, not with fear or hatred but with an insatiable hunger. The other eye was missing, leaving a hollow pit crawling with worms. All that was left of her once beautiful tresses were a few patches, wispy strands of wild straw-like hair.
Her mottled gray flesh was covered with the filth and grime typical of her kind and dozens of flies swarmed about her. Some of them stopped to deposit their eggs in the puss-filled weeping sores, which covered her spasmodically gyrating corpse. Maggots from earlier deposits crawled from boreholes and dropped onto the bed sheets.
The single candle, although scented, did little to mask the vile stench of decomposition, which permeated the room.
BIO:
Thomas M. Malafarina (www.ThomasMMalafarina.com) is a horror fiction writer from Berks County, PA. He has published three novels, “99 Souls”, “Burn Phone” and most recently, “Eye Contact” and story collections called “13 Nasty Endings”, Gallery Of Horror", "Malafarina Maleficarum Volume One" and “Malafarina Maleficarum Volume Two” through Sunbury Press of Camp Hill, PA. (www.Sunburypress.com). Thomas is putting the finishing touches on a new novel, a ghost story to be released in the fall of 2012. He has also published a collection of single-panel cartoons called “Yes I Smelled It Too: Cartoons For The Slightly Off-Center” through Sunbury. He has written dozens of short stories, which have been featured in numerous anthologies as well as on internet audio podcasts
Copyrights owned by Thomas M. Malafarina, 2012. All rights reserved.
Patrick D'Orazio - Wild Week!
Zombies Gone Wild!
Death is not the end…
“Zombies Gone Wild!” is a chilling collection of twenty-six stories from established authors as well as up-and-coming writers in the genre, with an opening poem from everyone’s favorite zombie. This anthology includes tales where the undead stand as a symbol of unification for a desperate world, where friends really are what you make them, and where new beginnings aren’t always a good thing.
The end is only the beginning…
Bizarre, humorous, and terrifying, “Zombies Gone Wild!” will satiate your hunger for zombie goodness.
WITH STORIES FROM:
Patrick D’Orazio, S.P. Durnin, Rebecca Besser, C. D. Carter, Nicholas Conley, and Adam Millard, and many more!
Zombies Gone Wild! is now available on Amazon!
Table of Contents
Blood, Sweat and Tears by William R.D. Wood
Cindy Lou, Who? by Cassandra Hex
Complete Caretaker by Hassan Riaz
Pollution by Brandon Cracraft
Admit One, Undead by Rebecca Besser
A Horrid Abundance by Bruce L. Priddy
The Horrors of Trench Warfare by David Indish
Dreams of a Dead Man by Shaun Meeks
Deadbeat by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
Damage Limitation by Adam Millard
The Departed by Peter Bailey
The Hills Have Zombies by Amber Keller
A Boy and His Bicycle by Nicholas Conley
What’s Eating You? by Patrick D’Orazio
Life (and Death) on the News Feed by C.D. Carter
A Love Best Served Cold by Thomas M. Malafarina
Devolution by Kevin Brown
The Lighthouse by Chris Daruns
A Science Experiment by Indy McDaniel
Being Neighborly by Carey Burns
The Crow by Meg Marquardt
The Path/Five Miles of Darkness by Craig Workman
The Harbingers by Charlie Morgan
Damon is Dead by Paul S. Huggins
Is That a Shillalah in Your Pocket…? by S. P. Durnin
Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse of 2012 by Joseph Channon
Get to know a little bit about one of the contributing authors, Patrick D'Orazio, as he answers a few questions and shares and excerpt from his story!
Bec: When you heard 'wild' and 'zombie' together, what was the first thing you thought?
Patrick: I envisioned an alcohol drenched zombie dancing with a lampshade on its head and being the ‘life’ of the party, har har.
Bec: What's the wildest thing you've ever done?
Patrick: There are those things which shall remain locked away in dark places. Those who know of those things shall remain nameless and they have been threatened with M.A.D.-Mutually Assured Destruction if they ever reveal such things.
In other words, I can neither confirm nor deny that I have ever done anything of any questionable nature-at least as far as you know.
Bec: What's the most extreme situation you think someone could be in when dealing with a zombie?
Patrick: Perhaps jumping out of an airplane as a skydiver with zombies on board. There are zombies already on the ground and other zombies are diving out of the same plane, coming after you. You have to dodge the flying bodies, get your chute open without them crashing into it, and also navigate to some spot where you can land and release the parachute fast enough to escape more falling bodies and all the zombies already on the ground.
Oh, you said a zombie, not tons of them? Well, being stuck in an insane asylum with a straight jacket on while your roomie becomes a slow moving zombie would be pretty extreme. A fast mover would just kill you. A slow mover might allow you to live long enough so that you’re actually driven insane before you surrender to their teeth.
Bec: If you had a zombie fighting badge for your Zpoc team, what would it say? What would your motto be?
Patrick: I would be the sneaky bastard, no doubt about it. I would be the one who comes up with 1,000 creative ways to skin a zombie. At the same time, my motto would be “One shot, one kill.” In other words, don’t waste bullets-get the job done the first time. Double tap sounds cool, but it represents only half the kills.
Bec: What kind of zombie scares you the most? Why?
Patrick: Different zombies for different scares-fast movers jar you, startle you, and freak you out, while slow movers almost put your mind at ease for a bit-you can handle them, they’re not too impressive, they can be toyed with, etc. But the dread builds and slow movers allow for people to be driven mad with fear and distrust with one another when trust is the most important thing you need to survive the impending horde. Fast movers tear you to pieces, but slow movers infiltrate your nightmares and gnaw on your soul.
What's Eating You? by Patrick D'Orazio, excerpt:
“Fifteen,” the doctor mumbled to himself while scanning the room numbers on the doors in the corridor. Glancing farther down the hall, he spotted the room he needed and flashed his ID in front of the scanner next to it. The door clicked open with a buzz and he stepped inside.
“Good afternoon, gentlemen. Sorry I’m late, but I wasn’t made aware that I had a new therapy group until about an hour ago.”
Dr. Mortis smiled at the three men sitting in chairs forming a semi-circle facing the door. None of his new patients said a word in response to the greeting. Instead, they looked at him with vacant, staring eyes that spoke of profound, eternal, and depthless pain. At least that was normal.
The doctor swiped a chair near the door and dragged it over to the group. Flipping it around so he was facing them, he plopped down in it. Glancing at the corner, he saw a cage filled with sedated victims as he’d requested.
Dr. Mortis glanced at his chart before taking a deep breath and regarding his new patients. “Welcome to the first session of the Romero Clinic’s therapy group for zombies with eating disorders.”
Bio: Patrick D'Orazio resides in southwestern Ohio with his wife, Michele, two children, Alexandra and Zachary, and two spastic dogs. A lifelong writer, he decided a few years ago that attempting to get published might be a better idea than continuing to toss all those stories he's been scribbling down over the years into a filing cabinet, never to be seen again.
Over twenty-five of his short stories appear or will be appearing in various anthologies from a wide array of different small press publishers. He has dipped his toes into a variety of genres, including horror, science fiction, fantasy, erotica, bizarro, western, action-adventure, apocalyptic, and comedy.
He has also written a trilogy of apocalyptic novels dubbed "The Dark Trilogy" which were originally released by The Library of the Living Dead Press. The three books, "Comes the Dark," "Into the Dark," and "Beyond the Dark," are being re-released with substantial new content by Permuted Press in 2013. Patrick is presently working on the fourth book in this saga, and plans on finishing the series with a fifth and final book after that. His hope is that these two new volumes will be released in 2014.
You can see what Patrick is up to via his website at www.patrickdorazio.com.
align="center">Copyrights owned by Patrick D'Orazio, 2012. All rights reserved.
Death is not the end…
“Zombies Gone Wild!” is a chilling collection of twenty-six stories from established authors as well as up-and-coming writers in the genre, with an opening poem from everyone’s favorite zombie. This anthology includes tales where the undead stand as a symbol of unification for a desperate world, where friends really are what you make them, and where new beginnings aren’t always a good thing.
The end is only the beginning…
Bizarre, humorous, and terrifying, “Zombies Gone Wild!” will satiate your hunger for zombie goodness.
WITH STORIES FROM:
Patrick D’Orazio, S.P. Durnin, Rebecca Besser, C. D. Carter, Nicholas Conley, and Adam Millard, and many more!
Zombies Gone Wild! is now available on Amazon!
Table of Contents
Blood, Sweat and Tears by William R.D. Wood
Cindy Lou, Who? by Cassandra Hex
Complete Caretaker by Hassan Riaz
Pollution by Brandon Cracraft
Admit One, Undead by Rebecca Besser
A Horrid Abundance by Bruce L. Priddy
The Horrors of Trench Warfare by David Indish
Dreams of a Dead Man by Shaun Meeks
Deadbeat by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
Damage Limitation by Adam Millard
The Departed by Peter Bailey
The Hills Have Zombies by Amber Keller
A Boy and His Bicycle by Nicholas Conley
What’s Eating You? by Patrick D’Orazio
Life (and Death) on the News Feed by C.D. Carter
A Love Best Served Cold by Thomas M. Malafarina
Devolution by Kevin Brown
The Lighthouse by Chris Daruns
A Science Experiment by Indy McDaniel
Being Neighborly by Carey Burns
The Crow by Meg Marquardt
The Path/Five Miles of Darkness by Craig Workman
The Harbingers by Charlie Morgan
Damon is Dead by Paul S. Huggins
Is That a Shillalah in Your Pocket…? by S. P. Durnin
Notes on the Zombie Apocalypse of 2012 by Joseph Channon
Get to know a little bit about one of the contributing authors, Patrick D'Orazio, as he answers a few questions and shares and excerpt from his story!
Bec: When you heard 'wild' and 'zombie' together, what was the first thing you thought?
Patrick: I envisioned an alcohol drenched zombie dancing with a lampshade on its head and being the ‘life’ of the party, har har.
Bec: What's the wildest thing you've ever done?
Patrick: There are those things which shall remain locked away in dark places. Those who know of those things shall remain nameless and they have been threatened with M.A.D.-Mutually Assured Destruction if they ever reveal such things.
In other words, I can neither confirm nor deny that I have ever done anything of any questionable nature-at least as far as you know.
Bec: What's the most extreme situation you think someone could be in when dealing with a zombie?
Patrick: Perhaps jumping out of an airplane as a skydiver with zombies on board. There are zombies already on the ground and other zombies are diving out of the same plane, coming after you. You have to dodge the flying bodies, get your chute open without them crashing into it, and also navigate to some spot where you can land and release the parachute fast enough to escape more falling bodies and all the zombies already on the ground.
Oh, you said a zombie, not tons of them? Well, being stuck in an insane asylum with a straight jacket on while your roomie becomes a slow moving zombie would be pretty extreme. A fast mover would just kill you. A slow mover might allow you to live long enough so that you’re actually driven insane before you surrender to their teeth.
Bec: If you had a zombie fighting badge for your Zpoc team, what would it say? What would your motto be?
Patrick: I would be the sneaky bastard, no doubt about it. I would be the one who comes up with 1,000 creative ways to skin a zombie. At the same time, my motto would be “One shot, one kill.” In other words, don’t waste bullets-get the job done the first time. Double tap sounds cool, but it represents only half the kills.
Bec: What kind of zombie scares you the most? Why?
Patrick: Different zombies for different scares-fast movers jar you, startle you, and freak you out, while slow movers almost put your mind at ease for a bit-you can handle them, they’re not too impressive, they can be toyed with, etc. But the dread builds and slow movers allow for people to be driven mad with fear and distrust with one another when trust is the most important thing you need to survive the impending horde. Fast movers tear you to pieces, but slow movers infiltrate your nightmares and gnaw on your soul.
What's Eating You? by Patrick D'Orazio, excerpt:
“Fifteen,” the doctor mumbled to himself while scanning the room numbers on the doors in the corridor. Glancing farther down the hall, he spotted the room he needed and flashed his ID in front of the scanner next to it. The door clicked open with a buzz and he stepped inside.
“Good afternoon, gentlemen. Sorry I’m late, but I wasn’t made aware that I had a new therapy group until about an hour ago.”
Dr. Mortis smiled at the three men sitting in chairs forming a semi-circle facing the door. None of his new patients said a word in response to the greeting. Instead, they looked at him with vacant, staring eyes that spoke of profound, eternal, and depthless pain. At least that was normal.
The doctor swiped a chair near the door and dragged it over to the group. Flipping it around so he was facing them, he plopped down in it. Glancing at the corner, he saw a cage filled with sedated victims as he’d requested.
Dr. Mortis glanced at his chart before taking a deep breath and regarding his new patients. “Welcome to the first session of the Romero Clinic’s therapy group for zombies with eating disorders.”
Bio: Patrick D'Orazio resides in southwestern Ohio with his wife, Michele, two children, Alexandra and Zachary, and two spastic dogs. A lifelong writer, he decided a few years ago that attempting to get published might be a better idea than continuing to toss all those stories he's been scribbling down over the years into a filing cabinet, never to be seen again.
Over twenty-five of his short stories appear or will be appearing in various anthologies from a wide array of different small press publishers. He has dipped his toes into a variety of genres, including horror, science fiction, fantasy, erotica, bizarro, western, action-adventure, apocalyptic, and comedy.
He has also written a trilogy of apocalyptic novels dubbed "The Dark Trilogy" which were originally released by The Library of the Living Dead Press. The three books, "Comes the Dark," "Into the Dark," and "Beyond the Dark," are being re-released with substantial new content by Permuted Press in 2013. Patrick is presently working on the fourth book in this saga, and plans on finishing the series with a fifth and final book after that. His hope is that these two new volumes will be released in 2014.
You can see what Patrick is up to via his website at www.patrickdorazio.com.
align="center">Copyrights owned by Patrick D'Orazio, 2012. All rights reserved.
