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WHAT YOU HOLD in your hands is a zombie memoir,…
BRAINS. AFTER I was resurrected, my first thought was, Brains.
OH, THE HUNGER. So hungry. Waking up, my body was…
I HAVEN’T SHAT since my transformation. The phenomenology of feces.
THE TRUCK STOPPED at a TA Travel Center in the…
WE REDUCED LOVER to his essence, a pile of bones…
THE CORPSE CATCHERS came and the corpse catchers caught us.
SUDDENLY AND LIKE that, the world was different. Reality shifted…
THE CAGE REMAINED motionless for days. I didn’t try to…
JUST A FEW short hours after my conversation with Joan,…
AT A REST stop near DeKalb, we spotted two young…
MY FATHER NEVER took me hunting. Dad and I read…
AS WE NEARED the chain-saw sculpture garden, we heard an…
MY FEAR: WHAT if Isaac doesn’t grow?
PICTURE AN AERIAL view, white everywhere, as thick as television…
OURS WERE THE only footprints on the snow-covered asphalt, and…
BRAINS! BRAINS, I tell you. We needed a thalamus for…
WE DROVE NORTH on 41, following the shoreline, running away.
THEY BOMBED ALL night: firebombs, cluster bombs, smart bombs, cherry…
WE FLOATED AND swam like mermaids. I slipped in and…
DAYS PASSED, WEEKS, a month, who knows? Water is timeless…
THE WATER WAS all kinds of blue, the blue of…
THE STARS LIT the sky like so many dynamos. The…
ANNIE AND I—our bellies full for the time being, content,…