The Truth About Zombies
My name is Erin and I am not a zombie, though my boyfriend, the gangster, Ryu, and the ghoul, Clément, tried to make one of me. They nearly succeeded, too, but Clément blew it—as he usually does—and although I no longer speak, appear to be totally apathetic, and exhibit other zombie-like behaviors, I was not really “made” in the traditional sense. I still have my will. If you read the official accounts, you’ll find that Erin Orison, the talented and rebellious only daughter of American ambassador,...
10. Girl Crazy (4)
The yakuza narrowed his eyes. “She’s not my girlfriend,” he said. First, there was silence. Then, Ryu watched the mercurial Clément change once again. “Look,” he spat, his thin gray face becoming rock hard, like something carved out of stone. “Look, I’m tired. You dragged me back here...
Dead Love: Zombie Termi...
Zombies … dead? Oh, no … that’s exactly the point. Humans may WANT to bury them, but zombies are the gift that keeps on living. Just like everything else in the wild-ass world of ours, these crazy cavorting cadavers have something important to share, if we’d just...
Dead Love: More Zombie ...
Another ninja poem pulled from my notebooks. They’ve been on my mind ever since that night at Lou Lou’s and our short stint in the ghoul-ninja’s Tokyo graveyard headquarters. A Ghost Reflects on the Ninja That night when the frogs were singing the nightingale floor*...
Dead Love: Zombie Anti-...
Are you dragging around like a zombie, staggering along, never catching up with whatever it is you are after? That’s how I felt until I found the purple powder. You remember my exercise guru, Nancy Bruning, founder of Nancercize? She’s the one who leads those N.Y. zombies in...
Dead Love: Anime Phenom...
Today my friend Jeff posted on Shonen Knife, and they are pretty cool, but my heart will always meruto for Hatsune Miku, because she’s my kind of pop star and favorite “anime phenomenon.” She proves that virtual gals have a spot … maybe a spotlight … in the...
Dead Love: Zombie Ninja...
Clément likes to do his translations and occasionally, when the mood overtakes me, I scribble scraps of poems in my many notebooks. My reading of Bruce Boston’s Dark Matters inspired a scribbling frenzy. I wrote a bunch of poems, mostly about ninjas, and I think I’ll share...