Catch and Release
$18,000 per catch. Less if they’re incomplete. Nothing if the head comes off, for obvious reasons. $18,000. More money than most people earn in a year, and all being well, we can earn it in a single day.
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Zombie Apocalypse Stories
A zombie apocalypse describes the collapse of society after the dead, infected, possessed, or otherwise transformed human beings begin to overwhelm the living. The category can be supernatural, viral, parasitic, or entirely unexplained, but its central drama is usually the same: familiar people become threats, public order disintegrates, and survivors must decide how much of their humanity they can preserve while hunted by bodies that will not stay still.
Read original zombie apocalypse short stories on this page from world-class authors, selected from the Ash Tales archive.
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Ground Zero
Dawn. Huntington. The high pitch squawk of a large crow interrupts the still air, as it picks at rubbish strewn over the pavements. A few moments later, the bird takes flight, flapping its wings in exaggerated fashion.
Tramp the Dirt Down
Every serial killer should have a good, reliable, durable shovel. Even accidental serial killers. My shovel, Betty, was under my nose the entire time festering at the back of the cupboard behind all those other household essentials and fetish gear.
For the Taking
The boy scout looked clean, even his hair. The jeans were worn but clean and the brown scout shirt almost new. Everything about him looked like Midwestern clean cut youth.
Ireland's Zombie Town
It was a freezing day in November, so cold that even the protestors had stayed at home for once.