Just Like in the Movies: A Short Story

"This guy knows more about the undead than I do. and that's saying something, because I've been hanging out with zombies for as long as I can remember." >Ronnie Marrero is a twenty-something year-old virgin who lives with his mother, but he's an unreliable narrator, and he's probably not gonna admit that to you. He collects Star Wars toys and comic books. He loves movies a lot. He's gonna make a movie one day, but he still hasn't seen Casablanca or The Red Shoes because he was too busy watching Dawn of the Dead for the two-hundredth time. (Or was it three-hundredth?) He's seen Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, and even Tom Savini's 1990 remake of Night around two hundred times apiece, too. (Or was it three hundred?) Ronnie Marrero is really into zombies... So when the dead start coming back to life in search of living human flesh and society collapses-just like in the movies-Ronnie's gonna be totally prepared... Right? A bloody and blackly-humorous meta-fictional exploration of zombie fandom, Just Like in the Movies was originally serialized on the George A. Romero message board and then published in its entirety on The Homepage of the Dead in 2000. It became one of the most-read and highest-rated zombie stories online, back when dial-up was king, and is available now for the first time as an e-book, some twenty-five long, bloody years later... Night of the Living Dead (TM) and (c) Image Ten, Inc. Used by permission.

Pagina's: 49, Paperback, Independently published