To tie-in, supplement and expand the AUTUMN series, over 120,000 words of free zombie fiction is available at www.lastoftheliving.net.
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THE COST OF LIVING
What would you do to survive, and will the end of everything change that?
Flash fiction hosted by www.thisishorror.co.uk as part of their Flash Fear series.
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EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
A DOG BLOOD prequel story:
The war between the Haters and the Unchanged is raging. After months of constant, directionless fighting, Danny McCoyne has come full circle. He’s about to find how far he’s travelled from his old life, and yet how close he still is to home.
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To read more about DOG BLOOD and the rest of the HATER series, visit www.thehatertrilogy.com.
Read the opening chapters of HATER here.
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WHO WE USED TO BE
From THE LIVING DEAD 2:
Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins was recently asked if, since he did not believe in any sort of afterlife, he was afraid of death. He replied that he was not afraid of death—after all, the universe had existed just fine without him for billions of years before he was born, so why should it trouble him to imagine that it would go on existing without him for billions of years after he’s gone? Rather, he was afraid of dying, because current laws compel dying patients to endure a torturous gauntlet of pain and suffering rather than letting them decide for themselves when to let go.
“I think many people assume that if they really did find themselves facing-off against the living dead, they’d react like the people in the movies and books: they’d hunt out weapons and supplies and fight off wave after wave of the dead,” Moody says. “I think the reality would be very different. Many people would just implode. Others would deny the impossible events unfolding around them and try to continue with their day-to-day as usual.”
Our next story questions the logic of trying to survive for as long as possible when all you’re doing is wasting precious time and effort prolonging the inevitable. “It’s like keeping a dying patient alive by pumping them continually with drugs which make them feel worse,” Moody says, “but sometimes you just have to accept that letting go might just be the kindest and most sensible option.”
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