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CARINA WAHLSTROM: The Year Funeral Homes Become a Dying Service

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“Wanna dip out early?”

I follow my coworker to the rooftop. Yesterday, we watched our CEO turn zombie. He seems happier eating brains, not just frying them. The corporate horde looks mostly the same, though better rested.

We jump, and I head home to my wife. Surely she’ll recognize me.

Carina Wahlstrom spends most of her time in front of a computer, so she decided she might as well do something productive.

PAUL LEWTHWAITE: A Rotten Crop

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The zombies falter. Flesh becomes corrupt. Limbs are shed; animation a struggle.

Yet the fiends still pursue us. Onto our fields we stagger; new furrows disrupted by frantic feet.

Spades raised, we strike; the dead fall, cleaved into pieces. Good fertilizer, for our crop.

We live on, another winter assured.

Paul Lewthwaite, who hails from Scotland, hopes to start writing again after a ten-year hiatus.