2010 December | Dead Love

Dead Love: Best Zombie ...

Just received the best zombie Christmas gift EVER: zombie finger puppets. Thanks to ZIA members and zombie sweethearts MB and JBK for the digital magic. They are made by Archie McPhee, which bills itself as “slightly less disappointing than most companies,” and they are...

Dead Love: Octavia E. B...

I think authors make the best revenants. Even the dead ones rise again and take a bow every time someone reads one of their books. My head’s bent today over the last page of Fledgling, a vampire novel by African American science fiction writer Octavia Estelle Butler, who not...

Dead Love: Post Apocaly...

Sometimes the attraction is purely chemical. Sound, color, raga—here’s my poem for a new year … Post Apocalyptic Raga In this bloody barbecue of a sunset gulls sweep over the salt sea where it has turned incarnadine, like manganese chloride tetrahydrate, not like...

11. Blame it on the Fug...

Then I pushed the thought aside. Ryu sighed. His white teeth flashed for an instant, then the smile disappeared. “Ahhh, so we’re in a mood tonight, are we? What’s wrong Ryu? Are you sad?” Ryu did look sad. True, I hadn’t known him long, but I had never seen him that way. “What...

Dead Love: Erin’s...

I am frankly envious—color me ghoulish green—of all those Christmas letters. I do think they are horrid things for the people who receive them and wonder: Who is this guy? How come I wasn’t included in the year of glorious fun? I was there; why are all those “famous friends”...

Dead Love: A Merry Zomb...

Have yourself a merry zombie Christmas, Let your heart be light … … I’ve been humming that old song for days (with a few revisions), and when this precious little video arrived courtesy of my super-favorite ZIA member I was thrilled to find that others were making...

Dead Love: Zombie Chris...

Don’t want to be a holiday zombie? Want to avoid the crawl from store to store, looking for gifts that are sure to bore? I recommend shopping online for amusing things to tuck beneath that tree you killed for Christmas … like zombie books and toys! So here’s a short...

Dead Love: Zombie Jokes...

Everyone needs a laugh on the solstice when the shadows are long and the shades are about, so I was mighty pleased when certain ZIA members began sending me jokes. OK, given the nature of the organization, they had to be about … zombies … but I just about died laughing...

Dead Love: Kindle Editi...

Did you know you can now get Dead Love in the Kindle edition, easy to download and just in time for Christmas? It’s under $10. Here are just a few of the recent Reader Reviews: ZOMBIES, GLOBETROTTING AND SO MUCH MORE … by Anne Woods I just read Dead Love and enjoyed it...

11. Blame it on the Fug...

Ryu laughed awkwardly and answered in less than perfect English. “No, Elin,” (he could never seem to say “Erin”). “It is only poisonous if it is prepared incorrectly. Yamada-san knows exactly what to do with this fish. Honto.” All right. I believed him. I nodded and put...