Hey Intrepid Readers,

It's almost Christmas and what goes better with Christmas, the snow and the kissing under the holly than zombies...  Zombies?  Yes, zombies.  I can’t imagine kissing a zombie and liking it, but when the call for ZOMBIALITY (Library of the Living Dead) came to my attention, I felt the urge to at least consider the subject.  Perhaps, given the above introduction, it won’t be a surprise that I chose to make my submission more light-hearted than just dead flesh gore…although, don’t get me wrong, there are just some things about a zombie that you really shouldn’t change.

    I had a bit of fun with my contribution to ZOMBIALITY in my submission, Dead Boy Number One (based on a true dead story). I decided to make my zombies a little less brain dead, a little more living dead; sure there's decay, but with refrigeration and preservatives, there's a lot more to death than zombie mayhem, but as my main character--the self styled and titular Dead Boy Number One--discovers, sometimes getting past expectation is a lot harder than simply beating death and running away to join the zombie theatre...

    Zombies don't care who you love...they want to eat us all. 
This book contains 28 stories with a perspective on zombies never quite imagined before. These stories reflect a variety of queered lives and experiences and explor the depths of what a zombie is. From the traditional to the fantastical, these stories are sure to entertain all of humankind.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Stonewall Rising - Vince Liaguno
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Die - Rob Rosen
GirlWorld - Lisa Morton
Just The Three Of Them At The End Of The World - John Grover
Still Rolling - Angelia Sparrow
Unrest In Cowpat - Stephanie Kincaid
To Please - Nicholas Alexander Hayes
Till The Last Beat - Clancy Nacht
Zombie Fiction - Dave Dunwoody
The Cairn - Christopher Fletcher
Unholy Alliance - Ben Langhinrichs
Eating Peaches - Rachel Green
Accepting Death - Tony Schaab
The Duval Crawl - Dave Chrisom
Among The Living - J. R. Rodriguez
Cocktail Conversation - Patrick F. Murphy
Walk Through The Fire - Jennifer Povey
ZOMB-mailion - Eric Andrews-Katz
The Dead Walk In Brooklyn - Molly Rydzel
Dead Boy Number One - Quinn Smythwood
Quickened Wood - Nathan Sims
World Without Snow - Jesus Morales
Sweetness - B. C. Edwards
Food Chain - Steve Spinale
The Quick And The Undead - Thomas Logan
Meatbots : A Love Story - Timothy Capehart
Humans Being Human - Patrick D’Orazio
Drag Queen vs Zombies - MP Johnson

    ZOMBIALITY is out now and available at Amazon.  If you want to share your holiday season with zombies...let me know how you survived.  Was it easier defending against zombies than the seasonal family onslaught?

Yours,

Quinn Smythwood.