Completed a New Story -- Zombie Walk

I have finished a new story:

Zombie Walk -- a Dribble & Maggot story

Lady Margaret Chesham (aka "Maggot") is a Girl Guide, and she wants to get a number of outdoor activity badges. She asks Sir Differel Van Helsing (aka "Dribble") to help her cheat, but naturally she refuses. Instead, she offers to help her earn them the right way. So they decide to spend a week hiking and camping through central Dartmoor.

Then one evening Zombies stumble into their camp. They take shelter in an abandoned farmhouse and encourage the horde to lay siege to them, so that the Caerleon Order has time to come to their rescue and exterminate the horde. But things get exceedingly complicated when they discover five children who seem to be able to control the Zombies.

No longer able to wait, they must take matters into their own hands. But even with a couple of pistols, Caliburn, and Vlad Drakulya, they cannot destroy the horde by themselves, and what if the children get away? Then again, they are a stone's throw away from the Great Grimpen Mire...

The title of the story is a play on the social phenomenon known as the Zombie Walk, when people pretend to be Zombies and walk the streets of their community as if they were an invading horde. It also plays with the standard scenario of most Zombie stories, wherein the heroes try to avoid contact with Zombies at all costs, whereas in this story Dribble & Maggot deliberately expose themselves to the horde to lead it where they will.

The story also features Vlad undergoing numerous transformations, something that rarely happens in other stories.

This story will be included in my future collection, "Tales of Adventure".

I no longer remember the direct inspiration for this story, other than a general desire to pit Differel and Margaret as children against a Zombie horde, but this story did go through many incarnations as to setting and details before the final plot gelled.