Rebecca Besser's Blog, page 72
October 26, 2012
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.
