Z is for Zombie: Nocturnal Screams: Volume 6: Nocturnal Screams, #6
By Mark Leslie
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Are you ready to be infected?
The walking dead take center stage in these three decidedly different takes on the reanimated corpses of the recently deceased. These original tales are about mindless, flesh-seeking shells of former humans, about the still sentient undead, and about a unique and daring bet made on a boys' night out.
THE ZOMBIE WHISPERER: Taking a dare and winning is everything to Robert LaChance. He lives up to his name by doing almost anything to win a bet; but what happens when his friends dare him to French-kiss a zombie?
VENGEANCE IS A DELICACY BEST SERVED COLD: Martin Hecht no longer possessed a human consciousness; but all he knew is he could hear a woman screaming and it hurt his brain
HIDE AND ZEKE: He was engaged in a high-stakes game of "Hide & Seek" when the zombie apocalypse began, but are his skills at hiding and evasion enough to keep Zeke alive against an army of the undead?
If you enjoy weird and strange Twilight Zone, Outer Limits or Black Mirror styled dark and eerie tales, then you're sure to enjoy this collection of short tales from the dark mind of Mark Leslie.
You can read the Nocturnal Screams story collection series in any order. Each volume is a stand-alone.
Mark Leslie
Mark Leslie is a writer of "Twilight Zone" or "Black Mirror" style speculative fiction. He lives in Southwestern Ontario and is sometimes seen traveling to book events with his life-sized skeleton companion, Barnaby Bones. When he is not writing, or reading, Mark can be found haunting bookstores, libraries or local craft beer establishments.
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Z is for Zombie - Mark Leslie
Z IS FOR ZOMBIE
Nocturnal Screams: Volume 6
By
Mark Leslie
Stark Publishing
Oct 2020
Nocturnal Screams: Vol 6: Z is for Zombie Copyright © 2018 Mark Leslie Lefebvre
The Zombie Whisperer
Copyright © 2020 Mark Leslie Lefebvre
Vengeance is a Delicacy Best Served Cold
Copyright © 2020 Mark Leslie Lefebvre
Hide and Zeke
Copyright © 2020 Mark Leslie Lefebvre
The characters and events portrayed in this short story collection are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Z is for Zombie: Nocturnal Screams: Volume 6
Introduction
The Zombie Whisperer
Vengeance is a Delicacy Best Served Cold
Hide and Zeke
Behind the Screams
Conclusion: Z is for Zis Is Zee End
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Further Reading: Active Reader: And Other Cautionary Tales from the Book World
Also By Mark Leslie
About the Author
To those who understand that it’s not the end of the world as we know it, but that it’s the beginning of the world as we fear it
Introduction
IN THIS SIXTH COLLECTION in the Nocturnal Screams series of short eerie tales, I thought it would be fun to collect a number of stories about zombies.
None of the three tales here have ever appeared in any format anywhere, so they are 100% original and unpublished.
I hope you enjoy them.
The tales you are about to read are perhaps along the lines of a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits or Amazing Stories episode. If you’re not of a certain age, you’ll likely only know these old television shows via repeats and YouTube clips. You might liken the tales to something you may see on an episode of Black Mirror – only, my stories tend to involve less of the science-fiction elements of that program and a lot more of the eerie and supernatural.
I go into a bit more detail, and I provide full stories-behind-the-stories for each of the tales, in a short section at the end of this book. That’s where I’ll reveal to you some insights behind the inspiration of the writing of each tale, as well as other insights that I think you might enjoy. That is, only if you’re one who enjoys those behind-the-scene tales.
If you’re not into that, then you’re likely better off just skipping that part and enjoying the stories on their own.
And so, speaking of which. If you’re a stranger to my fiction, then welcome, and thanks for checking this out. But even if you’re familiar with my writing, perhaps you are still a stranger to the tales that I am about to share with you.
Please, take my hand and join me as we dare ourselves to walk willingly into the midst of the walking undead.
The Zombie Whisperer
HEY CHANCIE!
STUART called out. Bet you don’t have the balls to French kiss that zombie.
Yeah, LaChance. I double-dare you!
Bruce said. Lay one on her!
I’ll lay one on her once I see you lay your money down, boys,
Robert LaChance said, getting up from the bar stool where the three of them had been gulping down McMenamins Rubinator beers.
You see, Robert LaChance would do almost anything to win a bet or prove his buddies wrong. Completion of either one came with the same smug satisfaction that fueled their competitive relationship.
It wasn’t the money; it was the winning.
Winning a bet was everything.
Following through on an outrageous dare was what life was about.
And, lately, the bets, and the adrenaline rush had been happening between intervals that seemed far too long.
Over the years, Robert and two of his best pals backed each other into the must cocked-up precarious situations imaginable. It involved elements of posturing, name-calling and tens of thousands of dollars exchanged between the three of them. From jumping out of planes, off tall bridges and cliff faces to death-defying stunt driving on a mountainous costal highway to deep-sea diving in shark-infested waters, there was barely a stunt one could conceive of that the three of them hadn’t added an extra layer of dangerous stupidity to and bet the other ones they wouldn’t be able to pull it off.
The surprising thing about this ridiculous lifestyle, however, was how this immature thrill-seeking behaviour become a key that just might save humanity from this confusing and horrifying worldwide plague.
And to think it all