Ok, so there was once a time I wrote in a review that I don’t really like zombies, but . . . It would be disingenuous to write that now, as I’ve read a good number of online zombie stories since then, so I must like them, huh? Anyway, they’re everywhere, which you think would get old – and yet I’ve come to realize how many different things a writer can do with the zombie apocalypse theme.

There’s straight up, hard bitten tales of survival and ass-kicking like "Dead Too Rights" and "Adrian’s Undead Diary". There’s black humour, like "Fatal Cure". There’s a wistful YA take on coming of age amidst zombies in "Zombie Girls". (FYI: all these zombie stories and more available on WFG). And now my latest favourite: a zombie romance, of sorts. Unrequited passion..and zombies.

After you’re dumped by the love of your life, well meaning folks will say things like "it’s not the end of the world". When in Marty’s case, they had to stop saying that, because it really was the end of the world, and they were all zombies.  Is his ex sweetheart alive, dead, or undead? Will they bond over zombie fighting, or is she the one he’ll have to fight? What if he really is the last man alive – then will she want him? So as not to give a spoiler, I’ll just say the answer turns out to be . . . odd. Not what you expect. I can’t explain more : Read it!

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