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Diary of a Runner by Steve Kuhn

Keep Dext Runnin'! 

Follow the story of Odessa Baxter (aka Dext) and his evolving group of survivors as they battle not only the undead epidemic but, more importantly, the human and moral dangers of the zombie apocalypse.

Note: Diary of a Runner contains pervasive harsh language; also, some graphic violence.


A serialized novel, updating twice weekly

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Listed: Apr 25, 2012

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Diary of a Runner

By Wildbow, author of Worm

Jul 10, 2012: It seems reviews for ‘Diary of a Runner’ are very divided, with two 5 star reviews and one 2 star review. A fairly large gap considering that the former indicates professional level writing and the latter is ‘a tough slog’, a half-step from ‘unreadable’. The primary point of contention is the writing style.

So let’s be blunt; Diary of a Runner is laid out in such a way that it’s virtually unreadable. Gavin noted all of this: Lack of paragraph formatting, [more . . .]

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Run the other direction

By G.S. Williams, author of The Surprising Life and Death of Diggory Franklin

Apr 25, 2012: "A Runner’s Diary" takes place in a post-disaster zombie infestation setting, like numerous other stories. So that was a star deduction. There are enough serials and movies in this mileu that writers should know they have to be compelling to bother, and fairly original to garner attention.

This story has nothing original to offer to its genre, so that was another lost star. I will say that I sort of enjoyed the narrator’s exuberant voice, it was weirdly humorous in a [more . . .]

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Characters to Care About in a Sick, Sad World

By Michelle_Dunlavy, member

Jul 9, 2012: This piece is a first-person diary-based story of a regular man, working a regular job and living a regular life when everything gets torn apart by the arrival of hordes of animated corpses. Having lost everything except his life, Dext goes on the run, as any intelligent human being who doesn’t wish to be lunch would do.

While many might brush this off as participating in a ‘genre’ that’s overly saturated at this point in time, I politely disagree. I’m a [more . . .]

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