Bicycle Requiem: A Zombie Novelette
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Author's note: Bicycle Requiem is an ~8,500 word novelette
On the way home from a draining night of work, Theodora (called Teddy by her friends) finds herself guilty of something she'd never dreamed: a hit and run that results in a child's death.
Wracked with guilt, Teddy hides her secret, carrying on as if nothing happened, but when the victim's zombie returns, bringing along her own kind of disturbing justice, Teddy learns innocent little Mara isn't exactly what she seemed.
And Teddy wonders, would jail be better than eternity with the vengeful girl's accusing spectre.
Is it a small price to pay--and for what?
Juli D. Revezzo
About the Author Juli D. Revezzo is a Florida girl with a love of speculative and romantic fiction and legend, and loves writing stories with all kinds of fantastical elements. She is the author of The Antique Magic series and the Paranormal Romance Celtic Stewards Chronicles series, New Adult romance Changeling's Crown, and short stories published in ETERNAL HAUNTED SUMMER, LUNA STATION QUARTERLY, among others. She is also a member of the Independent Author Network and the Magic Appreciation Tour. To learn more about this and future releases, visit her at: https://www.julidrevezzo.com/ Follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julidrevezzo or Twitter: http://twitter.com/julidrevezzo Please subscribe to my newsletter here (https://jdrevezzo.crazedfanboy.com/connectwme.html ) for news, more information on forthcoming stories and goodies!
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Bicycle Requiem - Juli D. Revezzo
BICYCLE REQUIEM
A zombie novelette
Bicycle Requiem, Copyright, Juli D. Revezzo, 2012; 2015
FIRST PUBLISHED, Twisted Dreams Magazine, 2012; expanded edition published by Raven Queen Publications, 2015
Cover art by Raven Queen Publications; photo copyright: biciclettaccia by danielito/Morguefile Free Photos; girl: JulietEmily23/deviantart.com
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission.
All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.
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Table of Contents
Cover page
Copyright page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Thanks for Reading
About the Author
Also by Juli
Dedication:
TO NOLAN B. CANOVA, who I think will appreciate this one.
Acknowledgements:
THANKS TO PATTY G. Henderson for allowing me to mention her heroine.
BICYCLE REQUIEM
CHAPTER ONE
MAN THAT WAS A LONG shift!
The clock on my dashboard flipped over, from 7:59 to 8. AM, that was. I yawned and the numbers blurred.
Home, here I come.
The overnight shift at Renaissance Cove was going to be the death of me, I was sure. Another yawn gripped me and the road before me blurred. My eyelids drooped. I shook myself and reaching out, cranked the radio up. Loud.
Alternative rock music pumped through the car and made my ears ring. I turned the noise back down.
Ka-thump!
The knock as my wheels rolled over something jolted me awake. What the hell was that?
A glance to my rearview mirror showed me a wisp of red, a hint of yellow. I peered harder and my foot rose from the gas. Were the colors only from the sunrise?
No.
In the tiny frame of the rearview mirror, a little girl’s body formed out of the morning fog. Her red coat lay open to the cold and so, it seemed, did her rib cage. Blood seeped out to glisten on the pavement.
Oh, shit! Heart thumping, I jammed my foot on the gas. Oh, shit. Oh, shit!
Part of me wondered what to do? Yet some tiny voice in my head or my pounding heart, screamed, Go!
Home. Bed.
This was nothing but a nightmare.
Against reason, I followed the voice’s advice. A hint of coffee, and the scent of the detergent that lingered on my comfy sheets, wafted on the air and I trailed after its beacon.
Like the fool that I am.
I should’ve stopped, I know. The thump under my wheels left no doubt in my mind where the candy-apple red bicycle had gone, and the fate of