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NISSA HARLOW: Not Everyone Likes Cookies

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Death didn’t want him.
So he came back and lived under the porch.
Mostly, he’s quiet. I leave out food sometimes, but he never eats it.
The best part is how he drives away the solicitors and evangelists.
I just wish he didn’t scare away the little girls selling cookies.

Nissa Harlow lives in British Columbia, Canada where she dreams up strange stories and writes some of them down. She is the author of a number of novels and novellas, all embellished with a touch of the fantastic. You can find her online at nissaharlow.com.

TIM BOITEAU: Night of the Televisual Dead

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Revenants streamed out of the TV.
Tom attempted to vault over the couch, but they fell upon him, tearing him to shreds.
As putrefying hands reached for her, Kelly stumbled over the coffee table, accidentally stepping on the remote.
The horde flickered into sitcom characters.
Everyone started laughing.
Except Tom.

Tim Boiteau is a Writers of the Future winner and Editor at Every Day Fiction. His third novel, The Nilwere, is slated to be published by Grendel Press in 2024-25. See more at timboiteau.wordpress.com.

SALVATORE DIFALCO: Demarco

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How was I supposed to tell the guy I thought he was dead? Seriously. Heard he died in a car crash. He asked how I was doing. I said I was good. How about you? I asked. Have my ups and downs, he said, eyes rolling back in his head.

Salvatore Difalco wrote this story.

GB BURGESS: Death Can’t Stop True Love

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When I woke, he stood by our bed, his suit muddy, eyes clouded, skin sickly pale.

“I’m home,” he croaked around his decomposing tongue.

“You shouldn’t be. You’re death walking again, honey.”

“Can I stay?”

“I wish…”

Taking his icy hand, I led him from the house, towards the cemetery.

GB is a writer from Tasmania. She prefers grey areas to the clarity of light and dark.

UZAIR SHAHED ISLAM: Animal Control

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He wondered, first, why it hadn’t died.

Grey fur, scarce, in patches. Full of fleas, and two tender red eyes. Worms. Some bones broken, limbs bent.

Loaded the gun. Shot it. “Rest, now.”

But when it raised its head again, he realized:

Perhaps it was never alive to begin with.

Uzair Shahed Islam is an economics and mathematics student at the Lahore University of Management Sciences who writes fiction and non-fiction in his spare time.

TIM SEVENHUYSEN: The Culture Who Cried “Zombie”

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“Honey, there’s a zombie on the lawn.”

“Already? Well, get the candy.”

“No, I think it’s a real one.”

“Dear, it’s Halloween. But boy does that makeup look convincing. I’m going to ask how he did it…”

Diary Entry, October 31, 2013: The humans have finally lowered their guard. It begins today.

It is my opinion that Halloween was designed by monsters to gradually lure humanity into a trap. And when it starts, how will we know who’s really a monster and who’s just wearing a costume? Beware!

Happy Halloween, everyone. Have fun and stay safe.

JOHN H. DROMEY: Christmas Surprise

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Two boys inspected their giftwrapped present.

“I think it’s a puppy. I can hear it scratching.”

“It’s a zombie,” his brother said.

“How do you know?”

“No air holes.”

They were both wrong. A considerate Santa’s helper had put batteries in a mechanical toy and forgot to switch it off.

John H. Dromey has had flash fiction published in a number of anthologies (print and electronic), as well as online at The Fast-Forward Festival, Liquid Imagination, three minute plastic, and elsewhere.

NANCY CAVANAUGH: The Assassination Attempt

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President Papi Kinsley rocked his wife, whispering, “You’re safe now.”

When she was asleep, Papi went downstairs. Zombie bodies were everywhere. He called Lord Zombino.

“I guess you didn’t know I’m a member of EZKIL, otherwise known as the Elite Zombie Killing International League,” Papi said. “Better luck next time.”

Nancy A. Cavanaugh is a freelance writer living in Keene, NH. You can read her flash and micro fiction at myflashywords.blogspot.com.

TIM SEVENHUYSEN: Don’t Call Me Savior

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Our Hero stood resolute in the middle of the rain-soaked, corpse-littered asphalt.

Zombie earthworms.

They inched closer, exuding sinister inevitability, crushed, broken, bloated, wasting away, and hungry.

Our Hero calmly set a bowl of oatmeal on the ground, flavouring it with his own blood.

That should keep them. For now.

I asked, on Twitter, what I should write a fifty-word story about today. @dotsam wrote, “Saving the universe with a bowl of oatmeal.” @RacoonResidue wrote, “Zombie earth worms.”

Hypotheticals

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“What do you think would happen if a yodeler got turned into a zombie? Would it cry for our brains with yodels?”

“…No.”

“Ok, stupid question, fair enough. Oh man, you know what would be really freaky, though? Zombified birds. Because they could fly.”

Sometimes I really hate my friends.

@DashP responded to a request for two nouns and a verb with the words “zombie”, “yodels”, and “fly”.