13. Live Dead Girl (6)

“My fan club,” he confided. “They just won’t leave me alone. Just as I won’t leave you alone,” he tittered. Then he tried, with a furious twitching, to wink. By this time the nurse and two orderlies had arrived. They lifted the skinny little man as if he weighed no more than a sack of...

Dead Love: The Limousin...

Had to go underground for a little while. Awww, did you miss me? I needed a lift, so when a darrrrrrling Doctor-Who-loving ZIA member sent this lively little chanson my way, I was truly touched. I’m sharing it today because you might need a lift too … OK, also because there...

Dead Love: Paris Zombie...

They say Parisians make the best zombies. Well, they definitely have a certain je ne sais quoi. Still, I’m not sure judgments can be made on zombie quality. Aren’t zombies and critical thinking contradictory notions? I would hope so, since this, in my opinion, is the appeal...

Dead Love: Zombie-Loan

If you aren’t already familiar with the Japanese manga series Zombie-Loan, created by Banri Sendo and Shibuku Ebara (Peach-Pit), and its anime adaptation, check this out. Awkward and apologetic Kita Michiru literally stumbles across ultra-awesome Boys A and B—Chika Akatsuki and...

13. Live Dead Girl (5)

It’s funny how living moments can become friezes, stiff, like the past caught in the flash of a camera, like photographs. What a fright, I thought. Then I saw myself as he saw me: the girl—a once-dead one—standing naked upon a chair in front of her mirror. So, I looked straight at him...