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The Dead Repent

 

​The story of zombies is not yet complete, and the truth can be more horrifying than suspected. Some victims are lucky: they simply die a gruesome death on someone’s meal plan or their consciousness flickers out, and they become a mindless eater of living flesh. The true horrors are reserved for those who survive the zombie's bite and awaken to remember all that they were, even as their curse makes them feast.

Julian is not a particularly lucky fellow.

Follow his descent into the most ancient shadows of night and history. He discovers what's hiding within and struggles to remember what humanity can mean for someone who keeps leaving his on the far side of last night’s dinner.

This sometimes irreverent, once in a while funny, and often horrific story is about the struggle to cling to a sliver of something other than what those unlucky become, a journey beyond death and humanity, to find a path out of fear and revulsion. It is more than a story of the not quite dead, yet.

Message

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White feather
incarcerated by a strand
of once-empty spider web,
now a spinning pinwheel
in deepening dusk winds,
tapping a percussive backing
to evening birds
stretching last vocal chords
before bed, undertones
to the neighbor’s arguments
through an open window.

The wind speaks suddenly,
a Pentecostal tongue slipping
from feather to ear,
about a change of weather.

ASCENT

Published November 2019

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