Like the description says, Undead Flowers is the personal journal of Joe St. John, a florist in Three Sisters. The small, seaside town has a day population and a night population. The humans during the day don’t know or rather don’t want to think about the night population. Joe is very aware of the night population because they’re his primary clientele. Vampires and ghosts really like flowers. 

Each story is told in twelve parts that are roughly 350 words each. Then the 12 stories are grouped in seasons. At the time of this review, the author is halfway through one season. To get a proper introduction to the story and characters, I recommend readers first read the various introduction pages listed on the left sidebar because if you don’t, characters like BriAnna will confuse you. You see BriAnna has a male spirit that she shares her body with, and they switch off frequently, but it isn’t explained except in his/her bio.

The need for the sidebar bios is because Joe is not big on introspection. For a diary blog, this seems a little strange. Only actions and plot are divulged in his entries. No long descriptions or deep thoughts on situations are presented. I found myself often wishing he would linger a bit on something so I could get a better picture of the situation and the characters. The stories themselves are unpredictable. One starts with a guy dieing, and Joe has to help the Grim Reaper retrieve the dead guy to do his paperwork. The B-plot is about a vampire looking for romance and a death threat from a hate group. That’s a lot of stuff to pack into roughly 4,200 words.

The stories have a light, fun feel to them, but don’t quite find the mark. I wish he would write longer posts, more posts, or something because right now, I can’t get into the stories. They go by so fast that I’m left wondering what just happened, and having trouble remembering who characters are. Thankfully, the sidebar’s there for me, but I wish I didn’t need it.

The site is gorgeous, which just goes to show that free templates can be amazing and in this instance, mesh nicely with the content. Richard/Joe allows comments and responds to them.

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