Spider Girl

By Andrea Trask

In the wake of a zombie apocalypse, Charlotte finds the family cabin to be the perfect place to make life work. With the use of aging equipment she used to think of simply as antiques, as well as the lessons on gardening, fishing, harvesting, cooking, and canning that she'd simply thought to be amusing stories imparted to her by her grandparents when she was a child, she falls into a steady daily routine of working toward not only surviving her current existence, but being fully prepared for making it through the coming winter as well.

Yet despite knowing they were out there somewhere, from the news brought by the occasional traveller, she finds herself unprepared for the unannounced arrival of one undead creature at her cabin - and entirely unready for the truth it brings along with it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrea Trask
• Release date: Nov 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301193660

Andrea Trask

Relentlessly cheerful and dedicated to the proposition that all people deserve happiness, Andrea picked up the name Bliss early in her college career, and it has stuck with her in the many years since to the point that she's far more likely to answer to it in a crowd.

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Spider Girl

by Andrea Trask

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Spider Girl

Someone had said, once, that one of the things that they saw after things went south was a flying bear. It sounded so ridiculous, and I'd laughed. It sounded like a joke. They didn't laugh, though. A bear, they said, a big grizzly like the kind you used to be able to see on the covers of hunting and fishing magazines, slapping salmon and trout out of the water. They had big wings sprouting from halfway down their sides, huge things where the fur faded into feathers, flapping heavily over the trees like a pegasus with teeth. And there were lasers coming from their eyes.

I laughed again, and they scowled, and shorted me in their trade. I couldn't really blame them – I'd be pissy if someone laughed at the things I'd seen or heard of from trusted sources. But holding back a can of beans for the meat I was trading them was seriously a dick move.

Man, dicks... I missed a good dicking, not going to lie. It's been a long time now since I'd seen anybody at all – more than two months, if my calendar is right, and I don't think I've missed ticking off many days. It's part of my morning routine, because you've gotta have a routine.

Gotta make sure you