The Somber Shoe

By Stacy Kingsley

Charlie was Valerie's best friend, until something happened to separate them forever.

He awoke to find himself in a busted car with only woods around him. His best friend, Valerie, was unconscious in the driver's seat. He needed help. What he found was chaos and death. Find out what happened to Charlie before Valerie was reunited with him.

This may contain a spoiler to the book ZOMBIES ARE PEOPLE TOO!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stacy Kingsley
• Release date: Oct 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301224371

Stacy Kingsley

Stacy grew up loving the horror genre. When she first saw the movie CUJO she learned that you have to wait because even in those last five minutes something will happen. Her love of zombies stems from her desire to find true monsters, not sparkling vampires, loving werewolves, or ghosts who help you solve cases. Zombies have one thing on their mind, eating people. She loves zombies so much she has done zombie makeup for an ice skating exhibition, played a zombie in a short independent film, done several zombie themed runs and is working on a zombie series. This is the first book in that series, her second book ZOMBIES BITE! will be out soon followed by ZOMBIE WASTELAND and the final book ZOMBIEMERICA. Stacy lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two crazy but entertaining cats.

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The Somber Shoe

a Zombies Are People Too! tale

Short Story by Stacy Kingsley

Copyright by SNvH 2013

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Charlie’s head throbbed and he couldn’t be sure where he was. When he lifted his aching head, pain shot through his neck; he realized he still sat in the passenger seat of his best friend, Valerie’s crashed car. Smoke billowed out from the front of the car, there were no toxic fumes and nothing seemed to be on fire, so Charlie took care and moved slowly. The front of the car had either struck a tree or got stuck in a ditch; he wasn’t sure and couldn’t see through the smoke. Valerie moaned and he turned his head slowly to look at her.

His neck ached and his face had hit the dashboard, he tasted blood on his lips. The fact that his face had been smacked on the dashboard made him wonder why the airbags hadn’t deployed. He assumed they always deployed in an accident, guess he had now been proven wrong. Valerie appeared to be unconscious, which might be good for right now because he could get himself out of the car without her panicking in his ear.

Something under the dashboard had latched