The War On Horror: Tales From A Post-Zombie Society

by Nathan Allen

“Invincibility” remained the leading cause of death among young males.

In the end, the zombie apocalypse turned out to be more of a zombie aberration. While millions were affected, more people died in that calendar year from heart disease. A hamburger was statistically more dangerous than a zombie.

This one statement sums up the entire premise so beautifully. While remaining a zombie apocalypse novel, it carves out an entire niche for itself with this one statement.

Affluence was a drug, and during election campaigns politicians became drug dealers.

Miles said that if the guy was a serial killer they had nothing to worry about, since the neighbors always lived to tell the tale.

“At least he died doing what he loved” cliché. That was the emptiest and most meaningless of all platitudes. Stuntmen frequently died doing what they loved. So did heroin addicts.

It was said that anyone who wanted to run for public office was unsuitable and should therefore immediately be disqualified. The type of person who would want to run the country is the type of person you definitely did not want running the country. It wasn’t that a career in politics made you a bad person; it was that the worst people were attracted to politics.