Because they looked so much like everyone else, we liked to say they'd pull a 'fast one' on you. They tied their shoes, buttoned their shirts and combed their hair.ğooled us real good. If your best friend was a well fed f-zombie and was sitting in that chair on the other side of the room, yeah that chair with your stuffed teddy bear, you wouldn't have any idea at all. No blood drippings from their chins, skin hanging loose off their face, no white eyeballs or the stench of rotted flesh. What that means is that they tidy up after themselves, which means they look like everyone else. There's not one officially recognized source for the 'f' in f-zombie, but each explanation for it is pretty much true. These stories are told with a helping of humor, a pinch of forgiveness and a dash of dismay.This selection features Cousin, a short story from the upcoming collection My Kin, soon available as an ebook.No one knows who started using the word 'f-zombie', though the term seemed to fit. Down here, family ties are strong but often as tangled as the kudzu that grows wild along the highways. We're too busy trying to keep up with each other.
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