Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.

I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren’t especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on...

Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. “Welcome to America,” he said, “where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.

He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.

I felt bad for the girls in my school, who flocked to prom like it was the second coming of Christ, complete with double-rainbows and unicorns.

In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel

The monkey didn’t help matters any. He was sitting on top of the microbus, just watching the undead plunge to their end. His face appeared so serene, so intelligent, as if he truly understood the...

There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till...

You have to stand out, do something, to be remembered.

Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, “May we ever be united in love and hidden as long as this stone hides...

It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk where book had been checked out in days when books were still being checked out. He stood there...

I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know something? It felt so good. It was justice, girl. The fucking law never gave...

The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.

My friend “M” says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can’t smile, because your lips have rotted off.

Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.

Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty women can bestow.’ Miss Bingley immediately fixated her eyes on his face, and desired...

Isn’t it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?

Demons, werewolves, zombies–they’re all supposed to be for entertainment purposes only.

Zombies don’t exist.

There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor cars, on bridge-whist and post-mortems, on moving pictures and potboilers, talking always to...

Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.

It had initially been thought that the zombie virus was an offshoot of Ebola. Many zombie-virus symptoms mimicked the terrible, hemorrhagic fever.

If you love someone, you’re not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie–not really dead but not really alive, either.

I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys

If a fae sorcerer, or sorcerers, are using necromancy to raise the dead they need to be stopped. No matter what happens, we need to bring a reckoning.–Catherine

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

Zombies are not just fictional creatures that devour the flesh of the living. They also include those who follow the words of others without thinking for themselves. This world is falling apart. I don’t think...

Corpses were real. He had heard about these cannibal dead walkers in the northeast, but they were in fact real. Rumor had it that one – just one – had made its way down towards...

Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-seven years: with an idiot—in this case, Rebecca Atherton, head of the After the End Times Irwins, winner of the Golden Steve-o Award for...

All myths have a basis in fact

What an excellent father you have, girls!’ said she, when the door was shut. ‘Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to...

And for God’s sake, if you need to shoot make sure to release the safety ,” he murmured, as we moved across the front, careful to stick to the shadows as often as we could....

Watch your back.” They hissed, and he tried to move faster, his heart racing and the nerves of his body jangling painfully with fear as he fought to get beyond them.Hands reached out for his...

The abundance of small things, it’ll bury you.

I went into the living room and looked down at my mother’s torn body and shook my head. It was surreal. I guess some people in that situation would have crumbled, some would have cried,...

Hmmm… Never heard of it. Okay- you drive.

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

Listen up, Little Miss Fun Hater. Off the record, if it wasn’t for our school’s strict but smarmy anti-bullying laws, I would bitch-slap you into next summer.

He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he’d come down all bitey.

Happy but isn’t the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so...

You’re quite annoying, but I guess your company is better than no company.” Keegan presses his arm against the wall beside my head and smiles. His curly black hair stands out against his pale skin....

This is how the zombie apocalypse starts,” Cas said. “You don’t screw with death, yo!

…the end of the world hasn’t granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.

I don’t like zombie movies, they’re just plain silly.

It ain’t how hard you are when you’re standing over top of someone that really matters. It’s how hard you are when someone’s standing over top of you that shows what you’re made of.

Really the only time men and women get along is when women want sex.

Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he’ll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I’ll introduce him to everyone, and...

Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator.